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entrance
1[ en-truhns ]
noun
- an act of entering, as into a place or upon new duties.
Antonyms: exit
- a point or place of entering; an opening or passage for entering, as a doorway.
Antonyms: exit
- the right, privilege, or permission to enter; admission:
People improperly dressed will be refused entrance to the theater.
- Theater. the moment or place in the script at which an actor comes on the stage.
- Music.
- the point in a musical score at which a particular voice or instrument joins the ensemble.
- the way in which this is done:
a sloppy entrance.
- a manner, means, or style of entering a room, group, etc.; way of coming into view:
She mimicked Joan's entrance.
- Nautical. the immersed portion of a hull forward of the middle body ( run ).
entrance
1/ ɪnˈtrɑːns /
verb
- to fill with wonder and delight; enchant
- to put into a trance; hypnotize
entrance
2/ ˈɛntrəns /
noun
- the act or an instance of entering; entry
- a place for entering, such as a door or gate
- the power, liberty, or right of entering; admission
- ( as modifier )
an entrance fee
- the coming of an actor or other performer onto a stage
Derived Forms
- enˈtrancing, adjective
- enˈtrancement, noun
Other Words From
- en·trance·ment noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of entrance1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
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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