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entrance

1

[ en-truhns ]

noun

  1. an act of entering, as into a place or upon new duties.

    Synonyms: ingress, entry

    Antonyms: exit

  2. a point or place of entering; an opening or passage for entering, as a doorway.

    Synonyms: ingress, entry

    Antonyms: exit

  3. the right, privilege, or permission to enter; admission:

    People improperly dressed will be refused entrance to the theater.

  4. Theater. the moment or place in the script at which an actor comes on the stage.
  5. Music.
    1. the point in a musical score at which a particular voice or instrument joins the ensemble.
    2. the way in which this is done:

      a sloppy entrance.

  6. a manner, means, or style of entering a room, group, etc.; way of coming into view:

    She mimicked Joan's entrance.

  7. Nautical. the immersed portion of a hull forward of the middle body ( run ).


entrance

2

[ en-trans ]

verb (used with object)

, en·tranced, en·tranc·ing.
  1. to fill with delight or wonder; enrapture.

    Synonyms: fascinate, spellbind, enthrall, transport

  2. to put into a trance:

    to be hypnotically entranced.

entrance

1

/ ˈɛntrəns /

noun

  1. the act or an instance of entering; entry
  2. a place for entering, such as a door or gate
    1. the power, liberty, or right of entering; admission
    2. ( as modifier )

      an entrance fee

  3. the coming of an actor or other performer onto a stage


entrance

2

/ ɪnˈtrɑːns /

verb

  1. to fill with wonder and delight; enchant
  2. to put into a trance; hypnotize

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Derived Forms

  • enˈtrancement, noun
  • enˈtrancing, adjective

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Other Words From

  • en·trance·ment noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of entrance1

First recorded in 1525–50; from Middle French; enter, -ance

Origin of entrance2

First recorded in 1585–95; en- 1 + trance 1

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Word History and Origins

Origin of entrance1

C16: from French, from entrer to enter

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Synonym Study

Entrance, admittance, admission refer to the possibility of entering a place or a group. Entrance may refer to either possibility: Entrance is by way of the side door; entrance into a card game. Admittance refers more to place and suggests entrance that may be permitted or denied: to gain admittance to a building; no admittance. Admission refers more to special groups and suggests entrance by payment, by formal or special permission, privilege, and the like: admission to a concert, a game, to candidacy, the bar, to society.

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Example Sentences

Eventually Terry left a blank open notebook on a table near the entrance, and let everyone know that if they wished to get something out that they were welcomed to write it down.

From Ozy

When cornered, they dig a short tunnel and then backfill the entrance, magically disappearing as if through a secret door, and you’ll never guess they’re sitting just a few inches away.

You arrive at your normal subway entrance and it’s blocked off.

From Fortune

The agreement is heralded as China’s full entrance into the global order.

Instead of using existing caves or natural features as entrances to other worlds, people started to build their own.

On her first entrance, Hitchcock says, “She looks old, they've shot her badly.”

Kocurek now works 12-hour shifts as a night watchman guarding the entrance to a drilling patch.

It made sense with so many suspects at hand, less so with the tower entrance separated from them by a forty foot wall.

He collapsed near the entrance of his room, probably in great pain.

The entrance to the show is a wall lined with books that conceals a secret door.

In the entrance hall of the Savoy, where large and lonely porters were dozing, he learnt that she was at home.

The main entrance is in the centre of the St. Martin's Lane front, and consists of a central roadway for carts and wagons, 15ft.

That embrace, that grin and that heart-born exclamation marked the entrance of the Pulsifer family into my life.

Sometimes the animal was caught in a trap which was nothing less than a hut of logs with a single entrance.

He left the arabyieh at the western entrance and went on foot down the avenue of headless rams.

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