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Entrance   /ˈɛntrəns/   Listen
noun
Entrance  n.  
1.
The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office.
2.
Liberty, power, or permission to enter; as, to give entrance to friends.
3.
The passage, door, or gate, for entering. "Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city."
4.
The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation; as, a difficult entrance into business. "Beware of entrance to a quarrel." "St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his discourses, makes a kind of apology."
5.
The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering; as, his entrance of the arrival was made the same day.
6.
(Naut.)
(a)
The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.
(b)
The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.


verb
Entrance  v. t.  (past & past part. entranced; pres. part. entrancing)  
1.
To put into a trance; to make insensible to present objects. "Him, still entranced and in a litter laid, They bore from field and to the bed conveyed."
2.
To put into an ecstasy; to ravish with delight or wonder; to enrapture; to charm. "And I so ravished with her heavenly note, I stood entranced, and had no room for thought."





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"Entrance" Quotes from Famous Books



... likely that the Honourable John Ruffin would have raised him to a considerable temperature on this matter; but the entrance of Pollyooly, bearing the tea-tray, closed the discussion of it. The Honourable John Ruffin poured out the tea and handed the bread ...
— Happy Pollyooly - The Rich Little Poor Girl • Edgar Jepson
... at her entrance, rose and closed the window; then lowered the blind very quietly, very slowly, and ...
— The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
... appointed to him rations for the time being. The next that appeared was the son of her uncle, who also had wandered as far as that city seeking his cousin, and he also having heard the folk speaking anent a free entrance to the Baths, said in himself, "Do thou get thee like others to that Hammam and solace thyself." But when he arrived there he also cast a look at that image and stood before it and wept for an hour or so as he devoured it with his eyes when the eunuchry beholding him ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... a man's calling out, "You are a traitress!" while Vittoria stood before the seats. She became pale, and her eyelids closed. No thinness was subsequently heard in her voice. The man was caught as he strove to burst through the crowd at the entrance-door, and proved to be a petty bookseller of Milan, by name Sarpo, known as an orderly citizen. When taken he was inflamed with liquor. Next day the man was handed from the civil to the military authorities, he having confessed to the existence of a plot in ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... troops marched up. A French gendarme, boldly or incautiously, approached the entrance; he was shot dead on the spot. Then, no doubt was left that Arrhigi was there. Either to spare life, or because no one was found bold enough to lead the forlorn hope in storming the entrance, it was resolved to blow up the cave. The engineers set to ...
— Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia - with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. • Thomas Forester


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