Usually means: Permit someone to do something.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word allow:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. allow: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. allow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. allow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. allow: Collins English Dictionary
  5. allow: Vocabulary.com
  6. Allow, allow: Wordnik
  7. allow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. allow: Wiktionary
  9. allow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. allow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. allow: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. allow: Dictionary.com
  13. allow: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. allow: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Allow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Allow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. allow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. allow: Rhymezone
  19. allow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. allow: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. allow: Free Dictionary
  22. allow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. allow: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. allow: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. allow: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. allow: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. allow: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. allow: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. allow: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. allow (it): English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

(Note: See allowed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (ditransitive) To let one have as a suitable share of something.
verb:  (transitive, catenative) To permit, to give permission to.
verb:  To not bar or obstruct.
verb:  (transitive) To acknowledge, accept the truth of; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
verb:  (transitive) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.
verb:  (transitive) To make an allowance, to take into account when making plans.
verb:  (transitive) To render physically possible.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
verb:  (obsolete) To sanction; to invest; to entrust.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To like; to be suited or pleased with.
verb:  (law, transitive) To decide (a request) in favour of the party who raised it; to grant victory to a party regarding (a request).
verb:  (transitive, MTE, MLE) To forgo bothering with, to let slide.

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