admit: Meaning and Definition of

ad•mit

1. to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
2. to give right or means of entrance to: This ticket admits two people.
3. to permit to exercise a certain function or privilege: admitted to the bar.
4. to permit; allow.
5. to allow or concede as valid: to admit the force of an argument.
6. to acknowledge; confess: He admitted his guilt.
7. to grant in argument; concede: The fact is admitted.
8. to have capacity for: This passage admits two abreast.

1. to permit entrance; give access: This door admits to the garden.
2. to grant opportunity or permission (usually fol. by of&hasp;): The contract admits of no other interpretation.