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SIDE ENTRANCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does side entrance mean?
• SIDE ENTRANCE (noun)
The noun SIDE ENTRANCE has 1 sense:
1. an exterior door at one side of a building
Familiarity information: SIDE ENTRANCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An exterior door at one side of a building
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
side door; side entrance
Hypernyms ("side entrance" is a kind of...):
exterior door; outside door (a doorway that allows entrance to or exit from a building)
Context examples
It is the side entrance for trades-people.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The nurse closed the front door; I went in by the side entrance which led to the schoolroom: I was just in time; it was nine o'clock, and Miss Miller was calling the pupils to go to bed.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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