1. To permit to enter: A crack in the wall admitted some light.2. To provide the right or a means of entrance to: A ticket that admits the whole group.3. To permit to exercise the rights, functions, or privileges of: was admitted to the bar association.4. To have room for; accommodate. 5. To afford opportunity for; permit: We must admit no delay in the proceedings.6. To grant to be real, valid, or true; acknowledge: admit the truth. See synonyms at acknowledge. 7. To grant as true or valid, as for the sake of argument; concede.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To afford possibility: a problem that admits of no solution.2. To allow entrance; afford access: a door admitting to the hall.3. To make acknowledgment.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English amitten, admitten, from Old French amettre, admettre, from Latin admittere : ad-, ad- + mittere, to send.
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