admit

Verb

• serve as a means of entrance
  • This ticket will admit one adult to the show
    

• have room for; hold without crowding
  • This hotel can accommodate 250 guests
    
  • The theater admits 300 people
    
  • The auditorium can't hold more than 500 people
    

• give access or entrance to
  • The French doors admit onto the yard
    

• afford possibility
  • This problem admits of no solution
    
  • This short story allows of several different interpretations
    

• admit into a group or community
  • accept students for graduate study
    
  • We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member
    

• allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of
  • admit someone to the profession
    
  • She was admitted to the New Jersey Bar
    

• allow to enter; grant entry to
  • We cannot admit non-members into our club building
    
  • This pipe admits air
    

• declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of
  • He admitted his errors
    
  • She acknowledged that she might have forgotten
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  accommodate , hold , allow , accept , take , take on , let in , include , allow in , intromit , acknowledge
• Antonyms: 
  exclude , keep out , shut out , shut , reject , turn down , turn away , refuse , deny