let

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To allow someone to do something or allow something to happen.

   My parents let me stay up late on weekends.

2. 2
   verb

   Used with us to make a suggestion about doing something together.

   Let's go to the beach this afternoon!

3. 3
   verb

   To allow someone to use a house, room, or building in exchange for rent.

   They decided to let the flat to a young couple.

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”…

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