From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
entrance
n 1: something that provides access (to get in or get out);
"they waited at the entrance to the garden"; "beggars
waited just outside the entryway to the cathedral" [syn:
entrance, entranceway, entryway, entry, entree]
2: a movement into or inward [syn: entrance, entering]
3: the act of entering; "she made a grand entrance" [syn:
entrance, entering, entry, ingress, incoming]
v 1: attract; cause to be enamored; "She captured all the men's
hearts" [syn: capture, enamour, trance, catch,
becharm, enamor, captivate, beguile, charm,
fascinate, bewitch, entrance, enchant]
2: put into a trance [syn: entrance, spellbind]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Entrance \En"trance\, n. [OF. entrance, fr. OF. & F. entrant, p.
pr. of entrer to enter. See Enter.]
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.
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2. Liberty, power, or permission to enter; as, to give
entrance to friends. --Shak.
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3. The passage, door, or gate, for entering.
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Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city.
--Judg. i. 24.
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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." --Shak.
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St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his
discourses, makes a kind of apology. --Hakewill.
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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.
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6. (Naut.)
(a) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the
water at the water line. --Ham. Nav. Encyc.
(b) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel,
below the water line. --Totten.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Entrance \En*trance"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entranced; p. pr. &
vb. n. Entrancing.] [Pref. en- + trance.]
1. To put into a trance; to make insensible to present
objects.
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Him, still entranced and in a litter laid,
They bore from field and to the bed conveyed.
--Dryden.
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2. To put into an ecstasy; to ravish with delight or wonder;
to enrapture; to charm.
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And I so ravished with her heavenly note,
I stood entranced, and had no room for thought.
--Dryden.
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