<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>To allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.</li><li>To give right or means of entrance to: This ticket admits two people.</li><li>To register (a person) as an inpatient at a hospital: After seeing the test results, the emergency room doctor admitted her and put her on intravenous fluids.</li><li>To permit to exercise a certain function or privilege: admitted to the bar.</li><li>To permit; allow.</li><li>To allow or concede as valid: to admit the force of an argument.</li><li>To acknowledge; confess: He admitted his guilt.</li><li>To grant in argument; concede: The fact is admitted.</li><li>To have capacity for: This passage admits two abreast.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>To permit entrance; give access: This door admits to the garden.</li><li>To permit the possibility of something; allow (usually followed by of): The contract admits of no other interpretation.</li></ul>