2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Admission \Ad*mis"sion\, n. [L. admissio: cf F. admission. See
{Admit}.]
1. The act or practice of admitting.
2. Power or permission to enter admittance; entrance;
access power to approach.
What numbers groan for sad admission there! --Young.
3. The granting of an argument or position not fully proved;
the act of acknowledging something ?serted;
acknowledgment; concession.
The too easy admission of doctrines. --Macaulay.
4. (Law) Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by
another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an
admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a
confession may be made without such inquiry.
5. A fact point, or statement admitted; as admission made
out of court are received in evidence.
6. (Eng. Eccl. Law) Declaration of the bishop that he
approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the
cure of the church to which he is presented. --Shipley.
Syn: Admittance; concession; acknowledgment; concurrence;
allowance. See {Admittance}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
admission
n 1: the act of admitting someone to enter "the surgery was
performed on his second admission to the clinic" [syn: {admittance}]
2: an acknowledgment of the truth of something
3: the fee charged for admission [syn: {entrance fee}, {admission
charge}, {admission fee}, {admission price}, {price of
admission}, {entrance money}]
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