Synonyms for permit
- verb
- noun
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Allow
allow, let, grant, authorize UK US, authorise UK, empower, enable, tolerate, suffer, bear, endure, admit, countenance, brook
Other
Noun
1. License — formal permission
license US, licence UK, permission, warrant, authority, consent, authorization UK US, authorisation UK, allowance, sanction, leave formal dated
Definitions
- v. 1
To allow (something) to happen, to give permission for.
- n. 1
Formal permission.
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We allow that which we do not attempt to hinder; we permit that to which we give some express authorization. Suffer, in the sense of mild concession, is now becoming rare, its place being taken by allow, permit, or tolerate.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- allow He didn't allow me to pay the bill for the dinner.
- grant My father, God grant him peace, was an accountant.
- enable This bird's large wings enable it to fly very fast.
By length
- 3 letters
- let1
- 4 letters
- bear1
- 5 letters
- leave1, allow2, grant1, admit2, brook1
- 6 letters
- suffer2, enable3, endure2
- 7 letters
- license2, consent2, warrant2, licence2, empower3
- 8 letters
- tolerate3, sanction2
- 9 letters
- authority4, allowance3, authorize3, authorise
- 10 letters
- permission3
- 11 letters
- countenance3
- 13 letters
- authorization5, authorisation
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (allow2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- permettre
- Italiano
- permettere
- Español
- permitir
- Deutsch
- erlauben
- Català
- permetre