ENTREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does entree mean? 

• ENTREE (noun)
  The noun ENTREE has 4 senses:

1. the principal dish of a meal

2. the right to enter

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

4. an entrance, especially a theatrical entrance onto a stage or as if onto a stage

  Familiarity information: ENTREE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENTREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The principal dish of a meal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

entree; main course

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

course (part of a meal served at one time)

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

plate (a main course served on a plate)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The right to enter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

access; accession; admission; admittance; entree

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

right (an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature)

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

door (anything providing a means of access (or escape))

Sense 3

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 ("entree" is a kind of...):

access; approach (a way of entering or leaving)

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

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

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)

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

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

pithead (the entrance to a coal mine)

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

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

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

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

vomitory (an entrance to an amphitheater or stadium)

Derivation:

enter (to come or go into)

Sense 4

Meaning:

An entrance, especially a theatrical entrance onto a stage or as if onto a stage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

she made a graceful entree into the ballroom

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

entering; entrance; entry; incoming; ingress (the act of entering)

 Context examples 

Miss Norton had the entree into most society, which Jo would have had no chance of seeing but for her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She had a most harmless delight in being fine; and our heroine's entree into life could not take place till after three or four days had been spent in learning what was mostly worn, and her chaperone was provided with a dress of the newest fashion.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Emma watched the entree of her own particular little friend; and if she could not exult in her dignity and grace, she could not only love the blooming sweetness and the artless manner, but could most heartily rejoice in that light, cheerful, unsentimental disposition which allowed her so many alleviations of pleasure, in the midst of the pangs of disappointed affection.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)