What does accepted mean?

Definitions for accepted
ækˈsɛp tɪdac·cept·ed

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. accepted, recognized, recognisedadjective

    generally approved or compelling recognition

    "several accepted techniques for treating the condition"; "his recognized superiority in this kind of work"

Wiktionary

  1. acceptedadjective

    Generally approved, believed, or recognized.

Wikipedia

  1. Accepted

    Accepted is a 2006 American comedy film directed by Steve Pink (in his directorial debut) and written by Adam Cooper, Bill Collage and Mark Perez. The plot follows a group of high school graduates who create their own fake college after being rejected from the colleges to which they applied. The story takes place in Wickliffe and a fictitious college town called Harmon in Ohio.

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  1. accepted

    Accepted generally refers to the act of agreeing to or approving of something. It can mean that something has been received, understood, or regarded as standard, valid or suitable. It could also mean that someone has been welcomed or allowed into a group or community. It is the past tense and past participle of the verb "accept."

Webster Dictionary

  1. Accepted

    of Accept

Wikidata

  1. Accepted

    Accepted is a 2006 American comedy film directed by Steve Pink and written by Adam Cooper, Bill Collage, and Mark Perez. The main plot centers around a group of would-be college freshmen who create their own "college" after being rejected from all the public colleges and universities for which they had already applied.

Editors Contribution

  1. acceptedverb

    Verb form of the word accept.

    They accepted the truth as they could feel it.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 16, 2020  

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'accepted' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1307

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'accepted' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1781

  3. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'accepted' in Adjectives Frequency: #1012

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of accepted in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of accepted in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of accepted in a Sentence

  1. Raven Saunders:

    Track was my first love...( it) gave me that oomph to push in the environment that I was in, i wasn't necessarily fulfilled because being a young, Black, LGBTQ woman in America and being in Mississippi -- the( most) old school of old school places that you can find in America -- it was really hard going through a phase of trying to learn and find Raven Saunders in a place where I didn't fully feel accepted.Steeplechaser Colleen Quigley discusses mental health, modeling and hunger for Olympic success.

  2. Malcolm Jenkins:

    In the case of Jon Gruden, obviously it’s very disappointing to the people who respected him, look up to him and the man he was to our league. But I think if we focus only on Jon Gruden, then we miss the bigger picture, which is that he was able to exist like that because the culture around him accepted it. When he sent those emails, nobody raised a red flag, nobody brought it to anybody’s attention. It was a normal thing.

  3. Kayleigh McEnany:

    We're commending the people who have put feelings aside and done what's for the betterment of the country and that's President Barack Obama, who put out a statement when this all was going on saying,' Look, we believe the vote represents the voice of the American people.' And Barack Obama has acted like a gracious, really hero in all of this, the way Barack Obama's accepted this and moved on.

  4. Aaron Klein:

    The process seems to create a diverse set of candidates in which the insider is almost always accepted.

  5. Gary LaBarbera:

    The #MeToo movement has highlighted whats right and whats wrong, and women are being accepted more and more on the job sites.

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