You can't enter the building without a permit.
Source: tatoeba (19379)
Permit
//pɚˈmɪt//
Synonyms for "permit" (127 found)
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Closest matches (26)
Strong matches (38)
Related words (63)
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16 entriesAntonyms
4 entriesSynonyms
4 entriesRelated terms
3 entriesdbpedia genus
1 entriesderived
26 entriesShowing 16 of 26 words.
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1 entriesis a
3 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
60 entriesShowing 16 of 60 words.
similar
2 entriesTranslations
147 translations across 58 languages.
Arabic
3 entries- رخصة noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- أَذِنَ verb (allow (something) to happen)
- سَمَحَ verb (allow (something) to happen)
Armenian
1 entries- թույլատրել verb (allow (something) to happen)
Bashkir
1 entries- рөхсәт noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
Belarusian
2 entries- дазваля́ць verb (allow (something) to happen)
- дазво́ліць verb (allow (something) to happen)
Bengali
1 entries- এজাজতনামা noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
Bulgarian
4 entries- разрешение noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- разрешително noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- позволя́вам verb (allow (something) to happen)
- разрешавам verb (allow (something) to happen)
Catalan
2 entries- permís noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- permetre verb (allow (something) to happen)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- ماوەدان verb (allow (something) to happen)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 執照 /执照 noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- 許可 /许可 noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- 許可證 /许可证 noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- 證 /证 noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
Czech
4 entries- povolení noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- dovolit verb (allow (something) to happen)
- dovolovat verb (allow (something) to happen)
- povolit verb (allow (something) to happen)
Danish
1 entries- tillade verb (allow (something) to happen)
Dutch
3 entries- vergunning noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- toelaten verb (allow (something) to happen)
- toestaan verb (allow (something) to happen)
Esperanto
1 entries- permesi verb (allow (something) to happen)
Estonian
1 entries- lubama verb (allow (something) to happen)
Finnish
3 entries- lupa noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- antaa lupa verb (allow (something) to happen)
- sallia verb (allow (something) to happen)
French
3 entries- permis noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- permission noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- permettre verb (allow (something) to happen)
Galician
2 entries- permiso noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- permitir verb (allow (something) to happen)
German
4 entries- Erlaubnis noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- Genehmigung noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- erlauben verb (allow (something) to happen)
- genehmigen verb (allow (something) to happen)
Greek
1 entries- επιτρέπω verb (allow (something) to happen)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- pèmèt verb (allow (something) to happen)
Hebrew
4 entries- הֶתֵּר noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- רִשָּׁיוֹן noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- הִרְשָׁה verb (allow (something) to happen)
- הִתִּיר verb (allow (something) to happen)
Hindi
4 entries- अनुज्ञप्ति verb (allow (something) to happen)
- इजाज़त देना verb (allow (something) to happen)
- देना verb (allow (something) to happen)
- स्वीकृति verb (allow (something) to happen)
Hungarian
1 entries- engedély noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
Indonesian
3 entries- izin noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- memperbolehkan verb (allow (something) to happen)
- mengizinkan verb (allow (something) to happen)
Irish
4 entries- ceadaigh verb (allow (something) to happen)
- lamháil verb (allow (something) to happen)
- leomh verb (allow (something) to happen)
- lig verb (allow (something) to happen)
Italian
4 entries- autorizzazione noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- permesso noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- autorizzare verb (allow (something) to happen)
- permettere verb (allow (something) to happen)
Japanese
3 entries- 許可 noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- 許す verb (allow (something) to happen)
- 許可する verb (allow (something) to happen)
Khmer
2 entries- លិខិតអនុញ្ញាត noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- អនុញ្ញាត verb (allow (something) to happen)
Korean
1 entries- 허락하다 verb (allow (something) to happen)
Kumyk
2 entries- изну бермек verb (allow (something) to happen)
- чечмек verb (allow (something) to happen)
Lao
3 entries- ປ່ອຍ verb (allow (something) to happen)
- ອະນຸຍາດ verb (allow (something) to happen)
- ໃຫ້ verb (allow (something) to happen)
Latin
3 entries- condōnō verb (allow (something) to happen)
- permittō verb (allow (something) to happen)
- sinō verb (allow (something) to happen)
Macedonian
2 entries- дозволи verb (allow (something) to happen)
- дозволува verb (allow (something) to happen)
Malayalam
2 entries- അനുമതിപത്രം noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- അനുവദിക്കുക verb (allow (something) to happen)
Māori
2 entries- puka whakaaetanga noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- tuku verb (allow (something) to happen)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- tillate verb (allow (something) to happen)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- برات noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- تذكره noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- براقمق verb (allow (something) to happen)
Persian
1 entries- اجازه دادن verb (allow (something) to happen)
Polish
4 entries- pozwolenie noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- przepustka noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- pozwalać verb (allow (something) to happen)
- pozwolić verb (allow (something) to happen)
Portuguese
4 entries- autorização noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- aval noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- licença noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- permissão noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
Romanian
1 entries- permis noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
Russian
4 entries- дозволе́ние noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- разреше́ние noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- позво́лить verb (allow (something) to happen)
- позволя́ть verb (allow (something) to happen)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- dozvoliti verb (allow (something) to happen)
- дозволити verb (allow (something) to happen)
Slovak
2 entries- dovoliť verb (allow (something) to happen)
- povoliť verb (allow (something) to happen)
Slovene
3 entries- dovoljenje noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- dopustiti verb (allow (something) to happen)
- dovoliti verb (allow (something) to happen)
Southern Altai
2 entries- чечер verb (allow (something) to happen)
- чечип айдар verb (allow (something) to happen)
Spanish
2 entries- permiso noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- permitir verb (allow (something) to happen)
Swahili
1 entries- kibali noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
Swedish
2 entries- tillstånd noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- tillåta verb (allow (something) to happen)
Tagalog
4 entries- pahintulot noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- hayaan verb (allow (something) to happen)
- ipahintulot verb (allow (something) to happen)
- itulot verb (allow (something) to happen)
Thai
4 entries- ใบอนุญาต noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- ปล่อย verb (allow (something) to happen)
- อนุญาต verb (allow (something) to happen)
- ให้ verb (allow (something) to happen)
Tocharian B
2 entries- kälm verb (allow (something) to happen)
- tärk verb (allow (something) to happen)
Turkish
2 entries- fırsat vermek verb (allow (something) to happen)
- imkan yaratmak verb (allow (something) to happen)
Ukrainian
3 entries- до́звіл noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- дозво́лити verb (allow (something) to happen)
- дозволя́ти verb (allow (something) to happen)
Urdu
2 entries- اجازت دینا verb (allow (something) to happen)
- دینا verb (allow (something) to happen)
Vietnamese
1 entries- cho phép verb (allow (something) to happen)
Welsh
3 entries- hawlen noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- trwydded noun (an artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal)
- caniatáu verb (allow (something) to happen)
Zazaki
1 entries- fırsen dayen verb (allow (something) to happen)
Sample sentences
23 total sentences available.
The landlord won't permit him to paint the door red.
Source: tatoeba (24096)
Will you permit us to leave now?
Source: tatoeba (31409)
The doorman did not permit me to enter the theater.
Source: tatoeba (39038)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.