permission
Syllables: per·mis·sionUK/pəˈmɪʃ.ən//pəɹˈmɪʃ.ən/
permission noun: authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority).
Noun
permission (countable and uncountable, plural permissions)
- authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority)
- Sire, do I have your permission to execute this traitor?
- Antonyms:
- prohibition
- The act of permitting.
- Flags or access control lists pertaining to a file that dictate who can access it, and how.
- I used the "chmod" command to change the file's permission.
Verb
permission (third-person singular simple present permissions, present participle permissioning, simple past and past participle permissioned)
- To grant or obtain authorization for.
- Photographs also must be permissioned and credited, although a corpus of copyright-free images does exist online.2003, Mary Ellen Lepionka, Writing and Developing Your College Textbook, page 190
permission meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
permission in Hindi
- authorisation
- अनुमति anumti, स्वीकृति svīkŕti, इजाज़त ijāzat
permission in Tamil
- authorisation
- அனுமதி aṉumati
permission in Marathi
- permission, consent
- परवानगी parvāngī
- permission, approval, assent
- मान्यता mānyatā
permission in Urdu
- authorisation
- اِجازَت ijāzat, رُخْصَت ruxsat, اِذْن izn
More languagesFewer languages
- permission in Bengali
- অনুমতি onumoti, ইজাজত ijajot
- permission in Telugu
- అనుమతి anumati
- permission in Malayalam
- അനുമതി anumati, അനുവാദം anuvādaṁ
- permission in Kannada
- ಅನುಮತಿ anumati
- permission in Punjabi
- اجازت ījāzat, ਇਜਾਜ਼ਤ ijāzat, ਅੱਗਾਯਾ aggāyā
- permission in Gujarati
- પરવાનગી parvāngī
- permission in Odia
- ଆଜ୍ଞା ājñā
- permission in Sanskrit
- आज्ञा ājñā
- permission in Assamese
- অনুমতি onumoti, আজ্ঞা agga
- permission in Nepali
- अनुमति anumati
- permission in Pashto
- اجازت ejāzat, اجازه ejāza, اذن ezn, رخصت roxsat
- permission in Arabic
- تَصْرِيح taṣrīḥ, سَمَاح samāḥ, إِجَازَة ʔijāza, رُخْصَة ruḵṣa
- permission in Malay
- kebenaran, izin, keizinan, perkenan
- permission in Indonesian
- izin, keizinan, perkenan, permisi
- permission in Thai
- การอนุญาต gaan-à-nú-yâat, อนุญาต à-nú-yâat
- permission in Vietnamese
- sự cho phép
- permission in Myanmar
- အခွင့် a.hkwang.
Examples of permission in a sentence
- This book cannot be copied without the express permission of the publisher.
- The Chaos Gang managed to get administrator permissions and nuke the entire server in seconds.
- The principle of least privilege holds that a process should only receive the permissions it needs.
Synonyms of permission
Antonyms
Forms of permission
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | permissions |
| alternative form (obsolete) | permistion |
| alternative form (obsolete) | permixtion |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | permissions |
| present participle | permissioning |
| past participle | permissioned |
| past | permissioned |
Origin of permission
From Middle English permision, permission, permissioun, permyssion, from Middle French permission, from Latin permissiō. Equivalent to permit + -ion. Mostly replaced native English leave, from Old English lēaf (“permission”).
Words formed from permission
Phrases with permission
Words that rhyme with permission
- partition
- position
- proposition
- transition
- mission
- condition
- commission
- transmission
- addition
- admission
- attrition
- expedition
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- remission
- rendition
- exhibition
- submission
- ignition
- inhibition
- inquisition
- intromission
- magician
- omission
- suspicion
- tradition
- dentition
- edition
- patrician
- politician
- tuition
- acquisition
- circumposition
- decommission
- fission
- nutrition
- perdition
- phonetician
- prohibition
- superposition
- volition
- academician
- aesthetician
- Apician
- clinician
- coalition
- disquisition
- emission
- fruition
- Galician
- on a mission
- optician
- postposition
- premonition
- recommission
- retransition
- sedition
- superstition
- titian
- abligurition
- admonition
- adposition
Questions about permission
- What does permission mean?
- Permission means authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority).
- What is permission in Hindi?
- Permission in Hindi is अनुमति (anumti), स्वीकृति (svīkŕti), इजाज़त (ijāzat). See Permission meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is permission?
- Permission can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce permission?
- Permission is pronounced /pəˈmɪʃ.ən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of permission?
- The plural of permission is permissions.
Words near permission in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: permission (page history and authors); परवानगी (Marathi) (page history and authors); ಅನುಮತಿ (Kannada) (page history and authors); اجازت (Punjabi) (page history and authors); પરવાનગી (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ଆଜ୍ଞା (Odia) (page history and authors); आज्ञा (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); অনুমতি (Assamese) (page history and authors); अनुमति (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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