Word Meanings - ADMITTANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. Bouvier. Syn. -- Admission; access; entrance; initiation. -- Admittance, Admission. These words are, to some extent, in a state of transition and change. Admittance is now chiefly confined to its

Additional info about word: ADMITTANCE

The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. Bouvier. Syn. -- Admission; access; entrance; initiation. -- Admittance, Admission. These words are, to some extent, in a state of transition and change. Admittance is now chiefly confined to its primary sense of access into some locality or building. Thus we see on the doors of factories, shops, etc. "No admittance." Its secondary or moral sense, as "admittance to the church," is almost entirely laid aside. Admission has taken to itself the secondary or figurative senses; as, admission to the rights of citizenship; admission to the church; the admissions made by one of the parties in a dispute. And even when used in its primary sense, it is not identical with admittance. Thus, we speak of admission into a country, territory, and other larger localities, etc., where admittance could not be used. So, when we speak of admission to a concert or other public assembly, the meaning is not perhaps exactly that of admittance, viz., access within the walls of the building, but rather a reception into the audience, or access to the performances. But the lines of distinction on this subject are one definitely drawn. (more info) 1. The act of admitting. 2. Permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception. To gain admittance into the house. South. He desires admittance to the king. Dryden. To give admittance to a thought of fear. Shak. 3. Concession; admission; allowance; as, the admittance of an argument. Sir T. Browne. 4. Admissibility. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ADMITTANCE)

• Approach
• Access
• avenue
• entrance
• adit
• vestibule
• arrival
• approximation
• advent
• Bearing
• admission
• appropinquation
• admittance
• mode
• path
• way
• advance
• similarity
• Reception
• Admission
• acceptance
• acceptation
• entertainment

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ADMITTANCE)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease

Related words: (words related to ADMITTANCE)

• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• ADVENTIST
  One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also Second Adventists. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• ADVENTURESS
  A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.
• APPROXIMATION
  1. The act of approximating; a drawing, advancing or being near; approach; also, the result of approximating. The largest capacity and the most noble dispositions are but an approximation to the proper standard and true symmetry of human nature.
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• ADVENTUROUSNESS
  The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness.
• DECREASE
  1. A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength. 2. The wane of the moon. Bacon.
• ADMITTANCE
  The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. Bouvier. Syn. -- Admission; access; entrance; initiation. -- Admittance, Admission. These words are, to some extent, in a state of transition and change. Admittance is now chiefly confined to its
• ACCEPTATION
  1. Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable. This is saying worthy of all acceptation. 1 Tim. i. 15. Some things . . . are notwithstanding of so great dignity and acceptation with God. Hooker. 2. The meaning
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• BEARISH
  Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris.
• WITHDRAWAL
  The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.
• BEARWARD
  A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak.
• WITHDRAW
  1. To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like. Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything. Hooker. 2. To
• WITHDRAWER
  One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts.
• BEAR'S-BREECH
  See Acanthus, n., 1. The English cow parsnip Dr. Prior.
• HINDEREST
  Hindermost; -- superl. of Hind, a. Chaucer.
• ACCESSORINESS
  The state of being accessory, or connected subordinately.
• ADVANCED
  1. In the van or front. 2. In the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers. 3. Far on in life or time. A gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written in his wrinkles. Hawthorne.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• NONARRIVAL
  Failure to arrive.
• SEABEARD
  A green seaweed growing in dense tufts.
• DOWNBEAR
  To bear down; to depress.
• REACCESS
  A second access or approach; a return. Hakewill.
• ADVENTIVE
  Adventitious. Gray. (more info) 1. Accidental.
• BLUEBEARD
  The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it
• INSUPPRESSIBLE
  That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.
• ANT-BEAR
  An edentate animal of tropical America , living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga.
• MISACCEPTATION
  Wrong acceptation; understanding in a wrong sense.
• GRAYBEARD
  An old man. Shak.
• MISBEAR
  To carry improperly; to carry wrongly; to misbehave. Chaucer.