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Allow: Definition and part of speech

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Allow

  1. v. i. To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.
  2. v. t. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
  3. v. t. To like; to be suited or pleased with.
  4. v. t. To sanction; to invest; to intrust.
  5. v. t. To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have; as, to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest.
  6. v. t. To own or acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion; as, to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow the truth of a proposition.
  7. v. t. To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage.
  8. v. t. To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent.

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.

Allowable: Definition and part of speech

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Allowable

  1. a. Proper to be, or capable of being, allowed; permissible; admissible; not forbidden; not unlawful or improper; as, a certain degree of freedom is allowable among friends.
  2. a. Praiseworthy; laudable.

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.

Allowableness: Definition and part of speech

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Allowableness

  1. n. The quality of being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety.

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.

All Saints’: Definition and part of speech

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All Saints’

  1. The first day of November, called, also, Allhallows or Hallowmas; a feast day kept in honor of all the saints; also, the season of this festival.

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.

Allowance: Definition and part of speech

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Allowance

  1. n. A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
  2. n. Approval; approbation.
  3. n. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
  4. n. Acknowledgment.
  5. n. License; indulgence.
  6. n. That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.
  7. n. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.

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.