accept

Meaning

Verb

1. To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
2. To admit to a place or a group.
3. To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
4. To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
5. To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
6. To endure patiently.
7. To acknowledge patiently without opposition or resistance.
8. To agree to pay.
9. To receive officially.
10. To receive something willingly.
11. To do a service done by an establishment.

Adj

Accepted.

Hyphenated as

ac‧cept

Pronounced as (IPA)

/əkˈsɛpt/

Etymology

First attested about 1380. From Middle English accepten, borrowed from Old French accepter, or directly from Latin acceptō, acceptāre (“receive”), frequentative of accipiō, formed from ad- + capiō (“to take”). Displaced native Old English onfōn.

Sentences

He came to understand its dodges and tricks , and to accept it as it was .