Definitions for allowed

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allowed al·lowed

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IPA: /əˈlaʊd/

Allowed is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 132 anagrams from letters in allowed (adellow).

Definitions for allowed

Idioms

1. allow for, to make concession or provision for:

adjective

1. Physics. involving a change in quantum numbers, permitted by the selection rules:

verb (used with object)

1. to give permission to or for; permit:
2. to let have; give as one's share; grant as one's right:
3. to permit by neglect, oversight, or the like:
4. to admit; acknowledge; concede:
5. to take into consideration, as by adding or subtracting; set apart:
6. Older Use. to say; think.
7. Archaic. to approve; sanction.

verb (used without object)

1. to permit something to happen or to exist; admit (often followed by of):

Origin of allowed

allow + -ed²

Examples for allowed

Her house is the only one in all Greece where women are allowed to be present at entertainments.

None but Greeks were allowed to enter the temples of this goddess.

During an emergency that ratio could be allowed to drop to 8.5 people per orbit.

No woman was allowed to enter Olympia, during the celebration of the games.

We will be upon no conditions with him, nor will you be allowed to be upon any.

His accuser was smeared and demeaned, and a star football player was allowed to keep on playing.

Users “should be allowed to use these devices and services the way they were intended,” Brookman says.

There was a long, airy gallery, in which he was allowed to take exercise any hour of the day.

States were encouraged and allowed to lower standards to make it appear they were improving.

A Wall Street person should not be allowed to help oversee the Dodd-Frank reforms.