different between admission vs postulant

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin admissio, admissionis; compare French admission. See admit.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /æd?m??.?n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

admission (countable and uncountable, plural admissions)

1. The act or practice of admitting.
2. Permission to enter, or the entrance itself; admittance; entrance; access

3. The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something asserted; acknowledgement; concession.
4. (law) Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.
5. A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence
6. (Britain, ecclesiastical law) Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented.
7. The cost or fee associated with attendance or entry.

Synonyms

• admittance, concession, acknowledgment, concurrence, allowance

Derived terms

• legacy admission
• nonadmission
• open admission
• readmission
• request for admission

Translations

See also

• admission on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• admission in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• admission in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin admissio, admissionem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ad.mi.sj??/
• Homophone: admissions

Noun

admission f (plural admissions)

1. admission (act of admitting; state of being admitted)

Derived terms

• examen d'admission

Related terms

• admettre
• admissible

Further reading

• “admission” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From French postulant, present participle of postuler.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?stj?l?nt/, /?p?st??l?nt/

Noun

postulant (plural postulants)

1. (Christianity) A person seeking admission to a religious order
2. A person who submits a petition for something; a petitioner.
   • 1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1254:

     But when the three postulants returned with Sabine it was clear that the results had been far from satisfactory, perhaps because of the massive potations of the old lady.

Anagrams

• outplants

Catalan

Verb

postulant

1. present participle of postular

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French postulant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?s.ty?l?nt/
• Hyphenation: pos?tu?lant
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

postulant m (plural postulanten)

1. (religion) postulant

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?s.ty.l??/

Noun

postulant m (plural postulants, feminine postulante)

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Verb

postulant

1. present participle of postuler

Latin

Verb

postulant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of postul?

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??stu.lant/

Noun

postulant m pers (feminine postulantka)

1. (religion) postulant

Declension

Further reading

• postulant in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French postulant.

Noun

postulant m (plural postulan?i)

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Declension