Acceptation
- n. The meaning in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received; as, term is to be used according to its usual acceptation.
- n. Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.