Meaning & use
admission
Permission to enter a place, institution, or event, or the act of being let in.
See it in a sentence
Admission to the museum is free for students on Wednesdays.
Her admission to the university depended on her final exam results.
A note on using this word
Admission also means a reluctant confession, as in 'an admission of guilt', a distinct but related sense.
Words with a similar meaning
entryacceptance
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Words with an opposite meaning
Another way to use it
2. noun
A statement acknowledging, often reluctantly, that something is true.
His admission that he had lied surprised everyone in the room.
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