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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Move 5102550100250500 Items per Page   Your Query of 'allow' Resulted in 8 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 8 Definitions allow verb  (transitive) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have To allow a servant his liberty To allow a free passage To allow one day for rest. He was allowed about three hundred pounds a year. —Macaulay. (transitive) To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion To allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow the truth of a proposition. I allow, with Mrs. Grundy and most moralists, that Miss Newcome's conduct . . . was highly reprehensible. —Thackeray. (transitive) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; To allow a sum for leakage. (transitive) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent. Smoking allowed only in designated areas. (intransitive) To let something happen, to admit; to concede; (transitive) To take into account by making an allowance. When calculating a budget for a construction project, always for contingency, contingencies. Etymology: From allouen, from alouer , from Medieval allaudÄre, "to praise", (ad-) + laudare, merged with alouer, from Medieval Latin allocÄre, "to assign".      Full Definition of allow allowable adjective  Appropriate; satisfactory; acceptable. Intellectually admissible; valid; probable. Able to be added or deducted in consideration of something. Permissible; tolerable; legitimate. (obsolete) Praiseworthy.      Full Definition of allowable allowableness noun  The state of being allowable.      Full Definition of allowableness allowably adverb  In an allowable manner.      Full Definition of allowably allowance noun  The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. Without the king's will or the state's allowance. --Shak. Acknowledgment. The censure of the which one must in your allowance overweigh a whole theater of others. --Shak. That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short. I can give the boy a handsome allowance. --Thackeray. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth. After making the largest allowance for fraud. --Macaulay. (commercial) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret. Etymology: alouance      Full Definition of allowance allowed verb  (past of, allow)      Full Definition of allowed allowing verb  (present participle of, allow)      Full Definition of allowing allows verb  (third-person singular of, allow)      Full Definition of allows Move 5102550100250500 Items per Page    Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish     Show 51015202550100250500 results per page. Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.allwords.com Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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