Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mea_culpa

1 sense of mea culpa

Sense 1
mea culpa -- (an acknowledgment of your error or guilt)
       => acknowledgment, acknowledgement -- (a statement acknowledging something or someone; "she must have seen him but she gave no sign of acknowledgment"; "the preface contained an acknowledgment of those who had helped her")