allowed
adj/əˈlaʊd/
1
Permitted, authorized.
- Can she come? -She'll be allowed to go later.
- The second level of reading we will call Inspectional Reading. It is characterized by its special emphasis on time. When reading at this level, the student is allowed a set time to complete an assigned amount of reading. He might be allowed fifteen minutes to read this book, for instance—or even a book twice as long.1972, Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 18:
2
Archaic Allotted.
3
Archaic Acknowledged; admitted to be true.
- With respect to the culture of the heart, it is unanimously allowed that sex is out of the question […]1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:
- Antonyms
- banned, forbidden, prohibited
- Derived terms
- allowedly, nonallowed, superallowed, unallowed