acception

From Middle English accepcioun, from Middle French accepcion (Modern French acception) and Latin acceptiō, acceptiōnis (“acceptance”); synchronically analyzable as accept +‎ -ion.

acception (plural acceptions)

1. (obsolete) Acceptation; received meaning.

• acception of persons
• acception of faces

• accept

• acception in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Borrowed from Latin acceptiō, acceptiōnem.

• IPA^(key): /ak.sɛp.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

acception f (plural acceptions)

1. meaning, sense (of a word), acceptation

   Synonyms: sens, signification

• sans acception de

• accepter

• “acception”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.