entrance definition

English entrance definition

Alternative forms

• entraunce

Etymology 1

From Middle French entrance (“entry”). Replaced native Middle English ingang (“entrance, admission”), from Old English ingang (“ingress, entry, entrance”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: ĕn'trəns, IPA^(key): /ˈɛn.tɹəns/

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Noun

entrance (countable and uncountable, plural entrances)

1. (countable) The action of entering, or going in.

   Her entrance attracted no attention whatsoever.

2. The act of taking possession, as of property, or of office.

   the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office

3. (countable) The place of entering, as a gate or doorway.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     ‘It was called the wickedest street in London and the entrance was just here. I imagine the mouth of the road lay between this lamp standard and the second from the next down there.’

   Place your bag by the entrance so that you can find it easily.

4. (uncountable) The right to go in.

   You'll need a ticket to gain entrance to the museum.

   to give entrance to friends

5. The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation.

   a difficult entrance into business

   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii]:

     Beware of entrance to a quarrel.

   • 1794, Henry Hunter, Sacred Biography

     in the entrance of the history of this great patriarch

6. The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering.

   His entrance of the arrival was made the same day.

7. (nautical) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.
   • 1899, Practical Engineer - Volumes 19-20, page 197:

     A coarse-lined ship, fig. 4, has an angle of entrance of about 40 deg., measured at the load-water line; while a fine-lined ship has only about half that angle.

   • 1919, Shipbuilding and Shipping Record - Volume 13, page 667:

     At low , say 9 knots for a 400-ft. ship, 60 deg. entrance angle (side to side) can be accepted.

   • 2018, Technology and Science for the Ships of the Future:

     This bulb therefore creates a greater wave but has a higher form resistance as the waterlines have larger entrance angles.

8. (nautical) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.
   • 1781, Horatio Nelson, Diary:

     She [the Albemarle] has a bold entrance, and clean run.

9. (music) The beginning of a musician's playing or singing; entry.

Synonyms

• ingang

Antonyms

• exit

Translations

Etymology 2

From en- + trance (“daze”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɛnˈtɹæns/
• Rhymes: -æns

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Verb

entrance (third-person singular simple present entrances, present participle entrancing, simple past and past participle entranced)

1. (transitive) To delight and fill with wonder.

   The children were immediately entranced by all the balloons.

   • 1996, Tab Murphy, Irene Mecchi, Bob Tzudiker, Noni White, and Jonathan Roberts, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (film)

     See the finest girl in France make an entrance to entrance...

2. (transitive) To put into a trance.

Translations

Anagrams

• centenar, enneract, rectenna

Middle French entrance definition

Etymology

First attested in late Old French, from entrer +‎ -ance.

Noun

entrance f (plural entrances)

1. entrance (place where entry is possible)
2. permission to enter

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (entrance)
• Etymology and history of “entrance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Portuguese entrance definition

Verb

entrance

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of entrançar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of entrançar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of entrançar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of entrançar