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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

허용된

Pronunciation / Transliteration: heoyongdoen

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Allowed/əˈlaʊd/
adjectiveverbCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #850 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"이 구역에서는 흡연이 허용되지 않습니다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Given permission to do something or having something permitted.

    "Photographs are not allowed inside the museum galleries."
As verb
  1. 1

    Past tense and past participle of allow; to permit or let happen.

    "The strict manager allowed the team to leave early on Friday."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English 'alouen', coming from Old French 'allouer' (to praise, allocate, or approve), which traces back to the Latin 'allocare' (to place, allot) and 'adlaudare' (to praise). Over centuries, the meaning shifted from granting or approving to the modern sense of permitting or giving official sanction.

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