assent

See also: -assent

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EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

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• IPA^(key): /əˈsɛnt/
• Rhymes: -ɛnt
• Homophone: ascent

EtymologyEdit

Old French assent (noun) and assentir (verb).

VerbEdit

assent (third-person singular simple present assents, present participle assenting, simple past and past participle assented)

1. To agree, to give approval.
   • Macaulay

     The princess assented to all that was suggested.

2. To admit a thing as true.
   • Bible, Acts xxiv. 9

     And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.

TranslationsEdit

to agree to, give approval to

• Bulgarian: одобрявам (bg) (odobrjavam), съгласявам се (sǎglasjavam se)
• Finnish: suostua (fi), myöntää (fi)
• French: assentir (fr)
• Italian: assentire (it)
• Maori: whakakoikoia, whakakoikoia
• Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: samtykke

  Norwegian Nynorsk: samtykkje

• Occitan: assentir (oc)

• Portuguese: assentir (pt)
• Quechua: añiy, huñiy
• Russian: одобря́ть (ru) (odobrjátʹ), соглаша́ться (ru) (soglašátʹsja)
• Serbo-Croatian: pristanak (sh) m, odobrenje (sh) n
• Slovak: súhlasiť
• Spanish: asentir (es), consentir (es)
• Swedish: samtycka (sv)
• Turkish: kabul etmek (tr), onaylamak (tr), rıza göstermek (tr)

SynonymsEdit

• accede
• consent

NounEdit

assent (plural assents)

1. agreement, act of agreeing

   I will give this act my assent.

TranslationsEdit

agreement, act of agreeing

• Bulgarian: съгласие (bg) (sǎglasie), одобрение (bg) (odobrenie)
• Finnish: suostumus (fi), myöntymys
• French: assentiment (fr) m
• Gallurese: cunsènsu
• Italian: assenso
• Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: samtykke n

  Norwegian Nynorsk: samtykkje n

• Portuguese: assentimento (pt) m, sanção (pt) f

• Russian: согла́сие (ru) n (soglásije), одобре́ние (ru) n (odobrénije), утвержде́ние (ru) n (utverždénije)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese: approvatzioni

• Sassarese: assensu
• Scottish Gaelic: aonta m
• Spanish: asentimiento (es) m
• Swedish: samtycke (sv)
• Turkish: kabul (tr), onay (tr)

Related termsEdit

• assentor

SynonymsEdit

• consent

AnagramsEdit

• antses, sanest, snaste, stanes, steans

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LatinEdit

VerbEdit

assent

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of assō