Meaning & use

admission

noun·Academic

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.

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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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