accept

English Online Dictionary. What means accept‎? What does accept mean?

English

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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əkˈsɛpt/, /ækˈsɛpt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əkˈsɛpt/, /ɪkˈsɛpt/
• (Hong Kong) IPA^(key): /əˈsɛp(t)/
• Homophone: except (in some dialects)
• Hyphenation: ac‧cept
• Rhymes: -ɛpt

Verb

accept (third-person singular simple present accepts, present participle accepting, simple past and past participle accepted)

1. (transitive) To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
2. (transitive) To admit to a place or a group.

3. (transitive) To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.

4. (transitive) To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
5. (transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.

6. (transitive) To endure patiently.

7. (transitive) To acknowledge patiently without opposition or resistance.

8. (transitive, law, business) To agree to pay.
9. (transitive) To receive officially.

10. (intransitive) To receive something willingly.
11. (Philippines) To do a service done by an establishment.

Conjugation

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “receive with approval”): reject, decline

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

accept (comparative more accept, superlative most accept)

1. (Early Modern, obsolete) Accepted.

Noun

accept (plural accepts)

1. (computing) Something that is accepted.

   Antonym: reject

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [akˈt͡ʃept]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Akzept, from Latin acceptus.

Noun

accept n (plural accepte)

1. acceptance

Declension

Etymology 2

Verb

accept

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of accepta

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [əkˈsɛp(t)]

Verb

accept (third-person singular simple present accepts, present participle acceptin, simple past acceptit, past participle acceptit)

1. accept

References

• “accept, v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
• Eagle, Andy, editor (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin acceptum, from accipere.

Noun

accept c

1. (finance, business) a bill of exchange that has been accepted
2. (finance, business) the acceptance of a bill of exchange

Declension

Derived terms

• acceptfrist
• acceptpris
• oren accept

Related terms

• acceptant
• acceptera

References

• accept in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• accept in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• accept in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)