accept

Meanings

Verb

• To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
• To admit to a place or a group.
• To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
• To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
• To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
• To endure patiently.
• To acknowledge patiently without opposition or resistance.
• To agree to pay.
• To receive officially.
• To receive something willingly.

Adjective

• Accepted.

Related

Opposite words

• reject, decline

Origin

• First attested about 1380. From Middle English accepten, borrowed from Old French accepter, or directly from Latin accepto ("receive"), frequentative of accipiō, formed from ad- + capiō.