Collins Primary Illustrated Dictionary

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NOUN the work of managing and supervising an organization

admiral admirals

NOUN a senior officer in the navy

admire admires, admiring, admired

VERB If you admire someone or something, you respect and approve of them.

admirer NOUN

admission admissions

NOUN 1 If you are allowed admission to a place, you may go into it.

2 If you make an admission, you confess to something or agree that it is true.

admit admits, admitting, admitted

VERB 1 If you admit something, you agree that it is true.

2 If you admit to something, you agree that you did something you shouldn’t have done.

3 To admit someone or something to a place is to allow them to enter it.

admittance

NOUN the right to enter somewhere • There will be no admittance to the party after eight o’clock.

adolescent adolescents

NOUN a young person who is no longer a child, but is not yet an adult

[from Latin adolescere meaning to grow up]

adolescence NOUN

adopt adopts, adopting, adopted

VERB If someone adopts a child, they take them into their family as their son or daughter by a legal process.

[from Latin adoptare meaning to choose for oneself]

adorable

ADJECTIVE loveable and attractive

adore adores, adoring, adored

VERB If you adore someone, you feel deep love and admiration for them.

adoration NOUN

adult adults

NOUN a mature and fully developed person or animal

advance advances, advancing, advanced

VERB 1 To advance is to move forward.

NOUN 2 An advance is progress in something. • There have been many scientific advances in the past century.

PHRASE 3 If you do something in advance of something, you do it beforehand. • We booked our holiday well in advance.

advanced

ADJECTIVE If something is advanced, it is at a high level, or ahead in development or progress. • The children in the top group do advanced maths exercises.

advantage advantages

NOUN 1 a benefit, or something that puts you in a better position • The advantage of e-mail is that it is quicker than the post.

PHRASE 2 If you take advantage of someone, you treat them unfairly for your own benefit.

3 If you take advantage of something, you make use of it.

adventure adventures

NOUN something that is exciting, and perhaps even dangerous

adverb adverbs

NOUN a word that tells you how, when, where or why something happens or something is done. For example, she walked slowly, he came yesterday, they live here.

[from Latin adverbium meaning added word]

advert

NOUN an abbreviation for advertisement

advertise advertises, advertising, advertised

VERB If you advertise something, you tell people about it in a newspaper, on a poster or on TV.

advertisement advertisements

NOUN a notice in a newspaper, on a poster or on TV about a job or things for sale