let
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Derived from Middle English leten, læten, from Old English lǣtan (“to allow, let go, bequeath, leave, rent”), from Proto-West Germanic *lātan, from Proto-Germanic *lētaną (“to leave behind, allow”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁d- (“to be tired, leave”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots lat, lete (“to let, leave”), Yola leth (“let”), North Frisian leet, let, lätje (“to let”), Bavarian låssn (“to let”), Dutch, Low German laten (“to let, leave”), German lassen, laßen (“to let, leave, allow”), Luxembourgish loossen (“to let, leave”), Yiddish לאָזן (lozn, “to let”), Danish lade (“to let, allow, leave”), Faroese, Icelandic láta (“to let”), Norwegian Bokmål la (“to let, leave”), Norwegian Nynorsk la, lata, late (“let, allow”), Swedish låta (“to let, allow, leave”), Gothic 𐌻𐌴𐍄𐌰𐌽 (lētan, “to let”), Albanian lë (“to allow, let, leave”) and partially related to French laisser (“to let”).
Inflected forms:
form: lets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: letting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: let
pos: verb
tags: past
form: leet
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
past
form: let
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: leet
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
participle
past
form: letten
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
participle
past
form: lett
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: lettest
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
past
present
second-person
singular
form: letteth
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: lets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lett
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: lettest
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
past
present
second-person
singular
form: letteth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
present
singular
third-person
Senses:
gloss: To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: After he knocked for hours, I decided to let him come in.
Pharaoh said, I will let you go.
If your name be Horatio, as I am let to know it is[…]
He could not be let die of thirst there alone in the dark.
The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing",[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
gloss: To allow to be or do without interference; to not disturb or meddle with; to leave alone.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Let me be!
Yet neither spinnes nor cardes, ne cares nor frets, / But to her mother Nature all her care she lets.
gloss: To allow the release of (a fluid).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The physicians let about a pint of his blood, but to no avail.
gloss: To allow possession of (a property etc.) in exchange for rent.
pos: verb
tags: UK
transitive
examples: I decided to let the farmhouse to a couple while I was working abroad.
“My dear Mr. Bennet,” said his lady to him one day, “have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?”
Mr. Bennet replied that he had not.
“But it is,” returned she; “for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it.”
Trailers for sale or rent, rooms to let, fifty cents.
gloss: To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; often with out.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to let the building of a bridge;  to let out the lathing and the plastering
gloss: Used to introduce a first or third person imperative verb construction.
pos: verb
tags: auxiliary
transitive
examples: Let's put on a show!
Let us have a moment of silence.
Let me just give you the phone number.
Let P be the point where AB and OX intersect.
"Let there be no doubt: I saw you boyfriend with another girl" "Let him. I don't care anymore".
gloss: To cause (+ bare infinitive).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Can you let me know what time you'll be arriving?
Soo within a whyle kynge Pellinore cam with a grete hoost and salewed the peple and the kyng and ther was grete ioye made on euery syde. Thenne the kyng lete serche how moche people of his party ther was slayne. And ther were founde but lytel past two honderd men slayne and viij knyȝtes of the table round in their pauelions.
Time's sea hath been five years at its slow ebb, / Long hours have to and fro let creep the sand[…].
What right had the unclean and stupid farmer, whose farm abutted on this sky water, whose shores he has ruthlessly laid bare, to give his name to it? ... Rather let it be named from the fishes that swim in it, the wild fowl or quadrupeds which frequent it, the wild flowers which grow by its shores, or some wild man or child the thread of whose history is interwoven with its own...
gloss: The allowing of possession of a property etc. in exchange for rent.
pos: noun
examples: Then he says “You would call it a Good Let, Madam?”
“O certainly a Good Let sir.”
Synonyms: allow
permit
Derived words: bloodlet
buy-to-let
buy to let
don't let the bedbugs bite
don't let the door hit you on the way out
forlet
if it's yellow let it mellow
inlet
let alone
let a sleeping dog lie
let a thousand flowers bloom
let be
let blood
let bygones be bygones
let crazy stick its dick in you
let down
let drive
let fluffy off the chain
let fly
let George do it
let go
let her rip
let he who is without sin cast the first stone
let him that is without sin cast the first stone
let him who is without sin cast the first stone
let in
let in on
let into
let it all hang out
let it alone
let it be
let it be known
let it snow
let know
let lie
let loose
let me count the ways
let me see
let me tell you
let nature take her course
let nature take its course
let Nature take its course
let-off
let off
let off steam
let on
let one go
let one loose
let one off
let one rip
let one's guard down
let one's hair down
let one's nuts hang
let one's short back and sides down
let out
let past
let rip
let's
let sleeping dogs lie
let slide
let slip
let someone have it
let someone hold
let someone loose
let something ride
let something slip
lettable
letter
let that sink in
let the buyer beware
let the cat out
let the cat out of the bag
let the chips fall where they may
let the cobbler stick to his last
let the devil out
let the dice fall where they may
let the dog see the rabbit
let the door hit you where the good Lord split you
let the good times roll
let the grass grow round one's feet
let the grass grow under one's feet
let the matter drop
let them eat cake
let them have it
let the perfect be the enemy of the good
let there be light
let the sleeping dogs lie
let things alone
let things be
let this cup pass from me
let through
lettor
let up
let us
let us count the ways
let us go
let us see
let well alone
let well enough alone
live and let live
live-and-let-live
offlet
outlet
relet
re-let
ship and let ship
sublet
take the cash and let the credit go
to let
underlet
unlet
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: lë
lang: Arabic
word: سَمَحَ
roman: samaḥa
lang: Arabic
word: دَعَّ
roman: daʕʕa
lang: Arabic
word: خلَى
roman: ḵella
lang: Armenian
word: թողնել
roman: tʻoġnel
lang: Aromanian
word: alas
lang: Aromanian
word: las
lang: Asturian
word: dexar
lang: Bangi
word: tika
lang: Belarusian
word: пуска́ць
roman: puskácʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: пусці́ць
roman: puscícʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: дазваля́ць
roman: dazvaljácʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: дазво́ліць
roman: dazvólicʹ
lang: Breton
word: lezel
lang: Bulgarian
word: позволявам
roman: pozvoljavam
lang: Catalan
word: permetre
lang: Catalan
word: deixar
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 讓 /让
roman: ràng
lang: Czech
word: nechat
lang: Czech
word: dovolit
lang: Danish
word: tillade
lang: Danish
word: lade
lang: Dutch
word: laten
lang: Dutch
word: toestaan
lang: Esperanto
word: lasi
lang: Esperanto
word: permesi
lang: Estonian
word: laskma
lang: Finnish
word: antaa
lang: Finnish
word: sallia
lang: French
word: laisser
lang: Friulian
word: lassâ
lang: Galician
word: deixar
lang: Georgian
word: ნების დართვა
roman: nebis dartva
lang: Georgian
word: გაშვება
roman: gašveba
lang: German
word: lassen
lang: Greek
word: επιτρέπω
roman: epitrépo
lang: Greek
word: αφήνω
roman: afíno
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἐάω
roman: eáō
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἀφίημι
roman: aphíēmi
lang: Mbya Guarani
word: eja
lang: Hebrew
word: הִנִּיחַ
roman: hinníaẖ
lang: Hungarian
word: hagy
lang: Hungarian
word: enged
lang: Icelandic
word: leyfa
lang: Ido
word: lasar
lang: Interlingua
word: lassar
lang: Istriot
word: lassà
lang: Italian
word: lasciare
lang: Italian
word: permettere
lang: Japanese
word: ...させる
roman: ...saseru
lang: Khmer
word: អោយ
roman: ʼaoy
lang: Korean
word: 허락하다
roman: heorakhada
lang: Ladin
word: lascer
lang: Latin
word: sinō
lang: Latin
word: patior
lang: Latin
word: permittō
lang: Latin
word: sustineō
lang: Latvian
word: ļaut
lang: Latvian
word: laist
lang: Lingala
word: tika
lang: Lithuanian
word: leisti
lang: Livonian
word: laskõ
lang: Lombard
word: lassà
lang: Macedonian
word: дозволи
roman: dozvoli
lang: Neapolitan
word: lassà
lang: Norwegian
word: la
lang: Occitan
word: permetre
lang: Occitan
word: daissar
lang: Old English
word: lǣtan
lang: Persian
word: گذاشتن
roman: gozâštan
lang: Persian
word: اجازه دادن
roman: ejâze dâdan
lang: Piedmontese
word: lassé
lang: Polish
word: pozwalać
lang: Polish
word: pozwolić
lang: Portuguese
word: deixar
lang: Portuguese
word: permitir
lang: Portuguese
word: ir
lang: Quechua
word: sagii
lang: Quechua
word: hagii
lang: Romanian
word: lăsa
lang: Romansh
word: laschar
lang: Romansh
word: lascher
lang: Romansh
word: schar
lang: Russian
word: пуска́ть
roman: puskátʹ
lang: Russian
word: пусти́ть
roman: pustítʹ
lang: Russian
word: позволя́ть
roman: pozvoljátʹ
lang: Russian
word: позво́лить
roman: pozvólitʹ
lang: Sardinian
word: lassai
lang: Sardinian
word: lassare
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: leig le
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: dopustiti
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: dati
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: пустити
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: дозволити
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: pustiti
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: dozvoliti
lang: Sicilian
word: lassari
lang: Slovak
word: nechať
lang: Slovene
word: pustiti
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: daś
lang: Spanish
word: permitir
lang: Spanish
word: dejar
lang: Swedish
word: låta
lang: Tagalog
word: hayaan
lang: Tagalog
word: pabayaan
lang: Telugu
word: ఇవ్వు
roman: ivvu
lang: Thai
word: ให้
roman: hâi
lang: Thai
word: ปล่อย
roman: bplɔ̀i
lang: Tocharian B
word: kälm-
lang: Tocharian B
word: tärk-
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: براقمق
roman: bırakmak
lang: Ukrainian
word: пуска́ти
roman: puskáty
lang: Ukrainian
word: пусти́ти
roman: pustýty
lang: Ukrainian
word: дозволя́ти
roman: dozvoljáty
lang: Ukrainian
word: дозво́лити
roman: dozvólyty
lang: Venetan
word: lasar
lang: Vietnamese
word: trở
lang: Vietnamese
word: để
lang: Walloon
word: leyî
lang: Walloon
word: laire
lang: Welsh
word: gadael
lang: Yiddish
word: לאָזן
roman: lozn