ENTRANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does entrance mean? 

• ENTRANCE (noun)
  The noun ENTRANCE has 3 senses:

1. something that provides access (to get in or get out)

2. a movement into or inward

3. the act of entering

  Familiarity information: ENTRANCE used as a noun is uncommon.

• ENTRANCE (verb)
  The verb ENTRANCE has 2 senses:

1. attract; cause to be enamored

2. put into a trance

  Familiarity information: ENTRANCE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENTRANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something that provides access (to get in or get out)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

entrance; entranceway; entree; entry; entryway

Context example:

beggars waited just outside the entryway to the cathedral

Hypernyms ("entrance" is a kind of...):

access; approach (a way of entering or leaving)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "entrance"):

hatchway; opening; scuttle (an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship)

vomitory (an entrance to an amphitheater or stadium)

stage door (an entrance to the backstage area of theater; used by performers and other theater personnel)

servant's entrance; service door; service entrance (an entrance intended for the use of servants or for delivery of goods and removal of refuse)

porte-cochere (a carriage entrance passing through a building to an enclosed courtyard)

portal (a grand and imposing entrance (often extended metaphorically))

pithead (the entrance to a coal mine)

gateway (an entrance that can be closed by a gate)

door; doorway; room access; threshold (the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close)

arch; archway (a passageway under a curved masonry construction)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A movement into or inward

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

entering; entrance

Hypernyms ("entrance" is a kind of...):

change of location; travel (a movement through space that changes the location of something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "entrance"):

encroachment; intrusion; invasion (any entry into an area not previously occupied)

Derivation:

enter (to come or go into)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of entering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

entering; entrance; entry; incoming; ingress

Context example:

she made a grand entrance

Hypernyms ("entrance" is a kind of...):

arrival (the act of arriving at a certain place)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "entrance"):

intrusion (entrance by force or without permission or welcome)

irruption (a sudden violent entrance; a bursting in)

entree (an entrance, especially a theatrical entrance onto a stage or as if onto a stage)

enrollment; enrolment; registration (the act of enrolling)

penetration (the act of entering into or through something)

admission; admittance (the act of admitting someone to enter)

incursion (the act of entering some territory or domain (often in large numbers))

Derivation:

enter (come on stage)

enter (to come or go into)

• ENTRANCE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they entrance ... he / she / it entrances
Past simple: entranced   
Past participle: entranced   
-ing form: entrancing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Attract; cause to be enamored

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

becharm; beguile; bewitch; captivate; capture; catch; charm; enamor; enamour; enchant; entrance; fascinate; trance

Context example:

She captured all the men's hearts

Hypernyms (to "entrance" is one way to...):

appeal; attract (be attractive to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "entrance"):

hold (hold the attention of)

work (gratify and charm, usually in order to influence)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

entrancement (a feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Put into a trance

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

entrance; spellbind

Hypernyms (to "entrance" is one way to...):

hypnotise; hypnotize; mesmerise; mesmerize (induce hypnosis in)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The performance is likely to entrance Sue

Derivation:

entrancement (a feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment)

 Context examples 

In the full glare of the afternoon light, crouching in the entrance of the cave, the cub saw the lynx-mother.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

If I came into the room where they were, and they were talking together and my mother seemed cheerful, an anxious cloud would steal over her face from the moment of my entrance.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

At our entrance, Mrs. Fairfax, Adele, Sophie, Leah, advanced to meet and greet us.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

We therefore blocked the entrance to our zareba by filling it up with several thorny bushes, and left our camp with the stores entirely surrounded by this protecting hedge.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Un-Dead.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

They came up to where I was standing by the entrance to the companion-way.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A nucleus located in the middle hypothalamus in the most ventral part of the third ventricle near the entrance of the infundibular recess.

(Arcuate Nucleus, NCI Thesaurus)

The entrance through which you enter or leave a room or building used as an element of an address.

(Door, NCI Thesaurus)

Dinets said the snakes coordinated their positions in such a way that they formed a wall across the entrance.

(Snakes Hunt in Groups, Study Suggests, VOA)

Then at the entrance of the parlour the youth again said quite loudly: “If I could but shudder! If I could but shudder!”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)