allow
Meaning of allow
- let (someone) have or do something.
the dissident was allowed to leave the country
she was allowed a higher profile
- give the necessary time or opportunity for.
he stopped to allow his eyes to adjust
- admit the truth of; concede.
he allowed that the penalty appeared too harsh for the crime
‘Could happen,’ she allowed indifferently
Middle English (originally in the senses ‘commend, sanction’ and ‘assign as a right’): from Old French alouer, from Latin allaudare ‘to praise’, reinforced by medieval Latin allocare ‘to place’ (see allocate).
Information about allow
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of allow is: allows.
- Languages in which allow is used:
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Hyphenation of allow
al-low
- It consists of 2 syllables and 5 chars.
- allow is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
allow synonyms
Meaning let:
Meaning permit:
permit, let, countenance, tolerate
Meaning grant:
Meaning appropriate:
Meaning leave:
Meaning admit:
Meaning give official permission for or approval to (an undertaking or agent):
Meaning give official permission or approval for (an action):
Meaning grant a licence to:
Meaning give (someone) the authority or power to do something:
Meaning give (someone) the authority or means to do something; make it possible for:
Meaning give (someone) a legal right or a just claim to receive or do something:
Meaning officially recognize or establish (someone) as a practitioner of a particular profession or activity:
Meaning allow (someone) to do something:
Meaning a small stream:
Meaning make (something that was previously illegal) permissible by law:
Meaning make legitimate or lawful:
Meaning make lawful or justify:
Meaning give approval to:
Meaning accept or admit the existence or truth of:
Meaning acknowledge the existence, validity, or legality of:
Meaning say that one will do something which has been suggested by another person:
Meaning consent to receive or undertake (something offered):
Meaning admit or agree that something is true after first denying or resisting it:
Meaning admit or acknowledge that something is the case or that one feels a certain way:
Meaning acknowledge something reluctantly, typically because one feels slightly ashamed or embarrassed:
Meaning agree to a demand, request, or treaty:
allow antonyms
Meaning keep (something) from happening:
Meaning refuse to allow (something):
Meaning state that one refuses to admit the truth or existence of:
Translation of allow
- French: permettre, autoriser
- Spanish: permitir, aprobar, autorizar, dejar, conceder, asentir, considerar, calcular, descontar, admitir, tolerar, reservar, destinar
- Italian: lasciare, permettere, autorizzare, volere, acconsentire, tollerare, concedere, considerare, calcolare, scontare, consentire, ammettere, riservare, destinare, accantonare
- German: erlauben
Words that rhyme with allow
Allhallow, ballow, behallow, betallow, callow, disallow, dishallow, encallow, enhallow, enwallow, fallow, gallow, hallow, mackallow, mallow, marshmallow, preallow, preswallow, reallow, refallow, rehallow, reswallow, rewallow, sallow, shallow, swallow, tallow, twifallow, unallow, uncallow, unhallow, unsallow, upswallow, wallow, waxmallow, yallow, Bellow, Fellow, Longfellow, Oddfellow, Rockafellow, Yellow, bedfellow, bellow, benchfellow, blackfellow, boonfellow, chamberfellow, clanfellow, classfellow