"accept" meaning in Englisch

See accept in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: əksɛpt Audio: En-us-accept.ogg , En-uk-accept.ogg Forms: simple present I, you, they, simple present accept, he accepts, she accepts, it accepts, simple past accepted, present participle accepting, past participle accepted
  1. annehmen, entgegennehmen, akzeptieren
    Sense id: de-accept-en-verb-UCCTN7z~
  2. akzeptieren, anerkennen, etwas gelten lassen, hinnehmen, sich mit etwas abfinden Tags: figurative
    Sense id: de-accept-en-verb-j0f9OsDb
  3. (in eine Gruppe) aufnehmen
    Sense id: de-accept-en-verb-NNArWIsD
  4. auffassen, verstehen
    Sense id: de-accept-en-verb-ZxxStG~~
  5. (einen Auftrag) annehmen, (einen Wechsel) akzeptieren
    Sense id: de-accept-en-verb-PMtBdDOZ
  6. annehmen, zusagen, einverstanden sein
    Sense id: de-accept-en-verb-7p7C~xxy
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: acceptability, acceptably, acceptable, acceptance, acceptation, accepted, accepter, acceptingly, acceptingness, acceptor Translations ((einen Auftrag) annehmen, (einen Wechsel) akzeptieren): annehmen (Deutsch), akzeptieren (Deutsch) Translations ((in eine Gruppe) aufnehmen): aufnehmen (Deutsch) Translations (annehmen, entgegennehmen, akzeptieren): annehmen (Deutsch), entgegennehmen (Deutsch), akzeptieren (Deutsch) Translations (annehmen, zusagen, einverstanden sein): zusagen (Deutsch), einverstanden (Deutsch) Translations (auffassen, verstehen): auffassen (Deutsch), verstehen (Deutsch) Translations (sdÜ): akzeptieren (Deutsch), anerkennen (Deutsch), gelten (Deutsch), lassen (Deutsch), hinnehmen (Deutsch), abfinden (Deutsch)
Categories (other): Anagramm sortiert (Englisch), Englisch, Rückläufige Wörterliste (Englisch), Verb (Englisch), Siehe auch Synonyms: take, acknowledge, admit, accede, embrace, agree, acquire, derive, get, gain, obtain, receive, acquiesce, approve, assent, avow, embrace, estimate, construe, interpret, regard, value

Inflected forms

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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "refuse"
    },
    {
      "word": "reject"
    },
    {
      "word": "decline"
    },
    {
      "word": "disagree"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
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      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Anagramm sortiert (Englisch)",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Englisch",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Rückläufige Wörterliste (Englisch)",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Verb (Englisch)",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Siehe auch",
      "orig": "siehe auch",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "acceptability"
    },
    {
      "word": "acceptably"
    },
    {
      "word": "acceptable"
    },
    {
      "word": "acceptance"
    },
    {
      "word": "acceptation"
    },
    {
      "word": "accepted"
    },
    {
      "word": "accepter"
    },
    {
      "word": "acceptingly"
    },
    {
      "word": "acceptingness"
    },
    {
      "word": "acceptor"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "simple present I, you, they"
    },
    {
      "form": "simple present accept"
    },
    {
      "form": "he accepts"
    },
    {
      "form": "she accepts"
    },
    {
      "form": "it accepts"
    },
    {
      "form": "simple past accepted"
    },
    {
      "form": "present participle accepting"
    },
    {
      "form": "past participle accepted"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "ac·cept",
  "lang": "Englisch",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "annehmen, entgegennehmen, akzeptieren"
      ],
      "id": "de-accept-en-verb-UCCTN7z~",
      "sense_index": "1"
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Austen, Jane; Pride and Prejudice",
          "text": "\"Presuming however, that this studied avoidance spoke rather a momentary embarrassment than any dislike of the proposal, and seeing in her husband, who was fond of society, a perfect willingness to accept it, she ventured to engage for her attendance, and the day after the next was fixed on.\""
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "akzeptieren, anerkennen, etwas gelten lassen, hinnehmen, sich mit etwas abfinden"
      ],
      "id": "de-accept-en-verb-j0f9OsDb",
      "sense_index": "2",
      "tags": [
        "figurative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The boys at school did not accept him because he wore glasses.",
          "translation": "Die Jungs in der Schule akzeptierten ihn nicht, weil er eine Brille hatte."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(in eine Gruppe) aufnehmen"
      ],
      "id": "de-accept-en-verb-NNArWIsD",
      "sense_index": "3"
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "auffassen, verstehen"
      ],
      "id": "de-accept-en-verb-ZxxStG~~",
      "sense_index": "4"
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "(einen Auftrag) annehmen, (einen Wechsel) akzeptieren"
      ],
      "id": "de-accept-en-verb-PMtBdDOZ",
      "sense_index": "5"
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "annehmen, zusagen, einverstanden sein"
      ],
      "id": "de-accept-en-verb-7p7C~xxy",
      "sense_index": "6"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "əksɛpt"
    },
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "take"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "acknowledge"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "admit"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "accede"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "embrace"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "6",
      "word": "agree"
    },
    {
      "word": "acquire"
    },
    {
      "word": "derive"
    },
    {
      "word": "get"
    },
    {
      "word": "gain"
    },
    {
      "word": "obtain"
    },
    {
      "word": "receive"
    },
    {
      "word": "acquiesce"
    },
    {
      "word": "approve"
    },
    {
      "word": "assent"
    },
    {
      "word": "avow"
    },
    {
      "word": "embrace"
    },
    {
      "word": "estimate"
    },
    {
      "word": "construe"
    },
    {
      "word": "interpret"
    },
    {
      "word": "regard"
    },
    {
      "word": "value"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "annehmen, entgegennehmen, akzeptieren",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "annehmen"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "annehmen, entgegennehmen, akzeptieren",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "entgegennehmen"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "annehmen, entgegennehmen, akzeptieren",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "akzeptieren"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "sdÜ",
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "akzeptieren"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "sdÜ",
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "anerkennen"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "sdÜ",
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "gelten"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "sdÜ",
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "lassen"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "sdÜ",
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "hinnehmen"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "sdÜ",
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "abfinden"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "(in eine Gruppe) aufnehmen",
      "sense_index": "3",
      "word": "aufnehmen"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "auffassen, verstehen",
      "sense_index": "4",
      "word": "auffassen"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "auffassen, verstehen",
      "sense_index": "4",
      "word": "verstehen"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "(einen Auftrag) annehmen, (einen Wechsel) akzeptieren",
      "sense_index": "5",
      "word": "annehmen"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "(einen Auftrag) annehmen, (einen Wechsel) akzeptieren",
      "sense_index": "5",
      "word": "akzeptieren"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "annehmen, zusagen, einverstanden sein",
      "sense_index": "6",
      "word": "zusagen"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "annehmen, zusagen, einverstanden sein",
      "sense_index": "6",
      "word": "einverstanden"
    }
  ],
  "word": "accept"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "refuse"
    },
    {
      "word": "reject"
    },
    {
      "word": "decline"
    },
    {
      "word": "disagree"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    "Anagramm sortiert (Englisch)",
    "Englisch",
    "Rückläufige Wörterliste (Englisch)",
    "Verb (Englisch)",
    "siehe auch"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "acceptability"
    },
    {
      "word": "acceptably"
    },
    {
      "word": "acceptable"
    },
    {
      "word": "acceptance"
    },
    {
      "word": "acceptation"
    },
    {
      "word": "accepted"
    },
    {
      "word": "accepter"
    },
    {
      "word": "acceptingly"
    },
    {
      "word": "acceptingness"
    },
    {
      "word": "acceptor"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "simple present I, you, they"
    },
    {
      "form": "simple present accept"
    },
    {
      "form": "he accepts"
    },
    {
      "form": "she accepts"
    },
    {
      "form": "it accepts"
    },
    {
      "form": "simple past accepted"
    },
    {
      "form": "present participle accepting"
    },
    {
      "form": "past participle accepted"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "ac·cept",
  "lang": "Englisch",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "annehmen, entgegennehmen, akzeptieren"
      ],
      "sense_index": "1"
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Austen, Jane; Pride and Prejudice",
          "text": "\"Presuming however, that this studied avoidance spoke rather a momentary embarrassment than any dislike of the proposal, and seeing in her husband, who was fond of society, a perfect willingness to accept it, she ventured to engage for her attendance, and the day after the next was fixed on.\""
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "akzeptieren, anerkennen, etwas gelten lassen, hinnehmen, sich mit etwas abfinden"
      ],
      "sense_index": "2",
      "tags": [
        "figurative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The boys at school did not accept him because he wore glasses.",
          "translation": "Die Jungs in der Schule akzeptierten ihn nicht, weil er eine Brille hatte."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(in eine Gruppe) aufnehmen"
      ],
      "sense_index": "3"
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "auffassen, verstehen"
      ],
      "sense_index": "4"
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "(einen Auftrag) annehmen, (einen Wechsel) akzeptieren"
      ],
      "sense_index": "5"
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "annehmen, zusagen, einverstanden sein"
      ],
      "sense_index": "6"
    }
  ],
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      "ipa": "əksɛpt"
    },
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "take"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "acknowledge"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "admit"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "accede"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "embrace"
    },
    {
      "sense_index": "6",
      "word": "agree"
    },
    {
      "word": "acquire"
    },
    {
      "word": "derive"
    },
    {
      "word": "get"
    },
    {
      "word": "gain"
    },
    {
      "word": "obtain"
    },
    {
      "word": "receive"
    },
    {
      "word": "acquiesce"
    },
    {
      "word": "approve"
    },
    {
      "word": "assent"
    },
    {
      "word": "avow"
    },
    {
      "word": "embrace"
    },
    {
      "word": "estimate"
    },
    {
      "word": "construe"
    },
    {
      "word": "interpret"
    },
    {
      "word": "regard"
    },
    {
      "word": "value"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "annehmen, entgegennehmen, akzeptieren",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "annehmen"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "annehmen, entgegennehmen, akzeptieren",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "entgegennehmen"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "annehmen, entgegennehmen, akzeptieren",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "word": "akzeptieren"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "sdÜ",
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "akzeptieren"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "sdÜ",
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "anerkennen"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "sdÜ",
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "gelten"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "sdÜ",
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "lassen"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "sdÜ",
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "hinnehmen"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "sdÜ",
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "abfinden"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "(in eine Gruppe) aufnehmen",
      "sense_index": "3",
      "word": "aufnehmen"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "auffassen, verstehen",
      "sense_index": "4",
      "word": "auffassen"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "auffassen, verstehen",
      "sense_index": "4",
      "word": "verstehen"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "(einen Auftrag) annehmen, (einen Wechsel) akzeptieren",
      "sense_index": "5",
      "word": "annehmen"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "(einen Auftrag) annehmen, (einen Wechsel) akzeptieren",
      "sense_index": "5",
      "word": "akzeptieren"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "annehmen, zusagen, einverstanden sein",
      "sense_index": "6",
      "word": "zusagen"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "annehmen, zusagen, einverstanden sein",
      "sense_index": "6",
      "word": "einverstanden"
    }
  ],
  "word": "accept"
}

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