entrance

• entraunce

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

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

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:

     ‘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

   • Shakespeare

     Beware of entrance to a quarrel.

   • Halliwell

     St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his discourses, makes a kind of apology.

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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ham. Nav. Encyc to this entry?)

8. (nautical) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Totten to this entry?)

9. (music) When a musician starts playing or singing, entry.

• ingang

• exit

From en- + trance (“daze”)

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

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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 — Disney, The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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

2. (transitive) To put into a trance.

• centenar, enneract, rectenna

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

entrance f (plural entrances)

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

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

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