accept definition

1. consider or hold as true
• examples: I cannot accept the dogma of this church
• examples: accept an argument
2. receive willingly something given or offered
• examples: The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter
• examples: I won't have this dog in my house!
• examples: Please accept my present
3. give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to
• examples: I cannot accept your invitation
• examples: I go for this resolution
4. react favorably to; consider right and proper
• examples: People did not accept atonal music at that time
• examples: We accept the idea of universal health care
5. admit into a group or community
• examples: accept students for graduate study
• examples: We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member
6. tolerate or accommodate oneself to
• examples: I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions
• examples: I swallowed the insult
• examples: She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies
7. be designed to hold or take
• examples: This surface will not take the dye
8. receive (a report) officially, as from a committee
9. be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal
• examples: The cow accepted the bull