ADMITTANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does admittance mean? 

• ADMITTANCE (noun)
  The noun ADMITTANCE has 2 senses:

1. the right to enter

2. the act of admitting someone to enter

  Familiarity information: ADMITTANCE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADMITTANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The right to enter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

access; accession; admission; admittance; entree

Hypernyms ("admittance" is a kind of...):

right (an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "admittance"):

door (anything providing a means of access (or escape))

Derivation:

admit (allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of admitting someone to enter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

admission; admittance

Context example:

the surgery was performed on his second admission to the clinic

Hypernyms ("admittance" is a kind of...):

entering; entrance; entry; incoming; ingress (the act of entering)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "admittance"):

readmission (the act of admitting someone again)

matric; matriculation (admission to a group (especially a college or university))

 Context examples 

There at least he was not denied admittance; but when he came in, he was shocked at the change which had taken place in the doctor’s appearance.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

However, this was a peculiar grace, not allowed to any but persons of the highest rank, when they desire an admittance.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The process of taking in a substance, especially by eating or drinking, or the quantities thereof; admittance of people to a place or organization at a particular time.

(Intake, NCI Thesaurus)

Into one house in this neighbourhood they shall never have admittance.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Here he is, he continued, as we made our way into the weighing enclosure, where only owners and their friends find admittance.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mrs. Jennings came immediately to their room on her return, and without waiting to have her request of admittance answered, opened the door and walked in with a look of real concern.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

She feared General Tilney did not like her appearance: she found it was implied in his preventing her admittance to his daughter, rather than postpone his own walk a few minutes.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Not a tie links me to any living thing: not a claim do I possess to admittance under any roof in England.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

No one ever regretted the admittance of Sam Weller, for a more devoted, well-behaved, and jovial member no club could have.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But if you do but claim to have it, and yet have it not, then it seems to me, master clerk, that you may yourself find the gate barred when you shall ask admittance.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)