entrance

English Online Dictionary. What means entrance‎? What does entrance mean?

English

Alternative forms

• entraunce (obsolete)

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/

Noun

entrance (countable and uncountable, plural entrances)

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

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

3. (countable) The place of entering, as a gate or doorway.

4. (uncountable) The right to go in.

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

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

7. (nautical) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.
8. (nautical) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.
9. (music) The beginning of a musician's playing or singing; entry.

Synonyms

• ingang

Antonyms

• exit

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From en- + trance (“daze”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɛnˈtɹɑːns/
• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ɛnˈtɹæns/
• Rhymes: -æns, -ɑːns

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.
   • 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.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• centenar, enneract, rectenna

Middle French

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

Descendants

• → English: entrance

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

Verb

entrance

1. inflection of entrançar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative