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accept

verbeadjectifnomcourant dans les dialogues

  • Royaume-Uni//əkˈsɛpt//
  • Royaume-Uni//ækˈsɛpt//
  • États-Unis//əkˈsɛpt//
  • États-Unis//ækˈsɛpt//

To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.

verbe

  1. 1

    To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.

    Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice.

    The Chinese say, that a little time afterwards she accepted of a treat in one of the neighbouring hills to which Shalum had invited her.

    I bid thee banish from thy heart all thought of me, but as one whom the Future cries aloud to thee to avoid. Glyndon, if thou acceptest his homage, will love thee till the tomb closes upon both.

  2. 2

    To admit to a place or a group.

    The Boy Scouts were going to accept him as a member.

  3. 3

    To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.

    I accept the notion that Christ lived.

    I can't accept nothing being done about the problem and your standing idly by.

  4. 4

    To receive as adequate or satisfactory.

  5. 5

    To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.

    I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.

  6. 6

    To endure patiently.

    I accept my punishment.

  7. 7

    To acknowledge patiently without opposition or resistance.

    We need to accept the fact that restaurants are closed due to COVID-19 and that no amount of wishing or screaming will make them reopen any sooner.

  8. 8

    To agree to pay.

  9. 9

    To receive officially.

    to accept the report of a committee

  10. 10

    To receive something willingly.

  11. 11

    To do a service done by an establishment.

    We accept repairs.

    We accept bookbinding.

Étymologie

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.

adjectif

  1. 1

    obsolèteAccepted.

    Pass our accept and peremptory answer.

nom

  1. 1

    Something that is accepted.

    Almost all line segments will be trivial accepts or trivial rejects, so the above covers the vast majority of cases.

Formes

pluriel
accepts
comparatif
more accept
superlatif
most accept
passé
accepted
participe passé
accepted
participe présent
accepting
3ᵉ personne du singulier
accepts
Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).