Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

permitted en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /pɚˈmɪtɪd/ (General-American)
  • /pəˈmɪtɪd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (US) audio

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of permit
    form of permit
    • They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups. 1909 September 9, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 9: