accept
//əkˈsɛpt//
Forms
- present (v1)
- accept
- past (v2)
- accepted
- past participle (v3)
- accepted
- present participle
- accepting
- 3rd person singular
- accepts
- Plural
- accepts
Definitions
1.To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
- The Chinese say, that a little time afterwards she accepted of a treat in one of the neighbouring hills to which Shalum had invited her.
2.To admit to a place or a group.
- The Boy Scouts were going to accept him as a member.
3.To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
- I accept the notion that Christ lived.
- I can't accept nothing being done about the problem and your standing idly by.
4.To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
1.Something that is accepted.
- Almost all line segments will be trivial accepts or trivial rejects, so the above covers the vast majority of cases.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #816
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
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.