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reconhecer — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • acknowledge verb To accept or admit that something is true.
  • admit verb To allow someone or something to enter.
  • concede verb To admit, often reluctantly, that something is true.
  • recognize verb To identify someone or something as already known from a previous encounter.

Senses

reconhecer is used for these senses in English:

  • acknowledge (transitive) To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in.
  • acknowledge (transitive) To own or recognize in a particular quality, character or relationship; to admit the claims or authority of; to give recognition to.
  • acknowledge (transitive) To own as genuine or valid; to assent to (a legal instrument) to give it validity; to avow or admit in legal form.
  • admit (transitive, or, intransitive) To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny (+ to).
  • concede To admit or agree to be true; to acknowledge

acknowledge — full definition

  1. verb To accept or admit that something is true.
  2. verb To recognize someone or something formally, or to respond confirming receipt of something.

admit — full definition

  1. verb To allow someone or something to enter.
  2. verb To acknowledge, often reluctantly, that something is true.
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