# allowed

/əˈɫaʊd/ (US) · /ɐlˈaʊd/ (UK)

Source: https://englishreference.com/word/allowed
Updated: 2026-06-19

## Senses

### 1. permitted

adjective · CEFR A2

having permission to do something or being within the rules.

For teachers: permitted or authorised by a person, law, or set of regulations.

- Are we allowed to use our phones during the lunch break?
- The security guard informed the visitors that photography was only allowed in the main lobby and not in the private galleries.

### 3. admitted as true

adjective · CEFR C2 · Archaic · Formal

accepted as being true or correct.

For teachers: acknowledged or admitted to be true; often used in formal or older texts regarding facts or arguments.

- It was an allowed fact that the two families had been rivals for years.
- The scholar presented his thesis based on several allowed premises that had remained unchallenged for centuries.

## Examples

- You are not allowed to smoke in the building.
- The students were allowed to use their notes during the final exam because the teacher wanted to test their application of the concepts.
- While the original charter allowed for significant local autonomy, the new regulations restricted the ways in which regional councils could allocate their annual budgets.

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