entrance Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun something that provides access (to get in or get out)
    entryway; entree; entranceway; entry.
    • they waited at the entrance to the garden
    • beggars waited just outside the entryway to the cathedral
  2. noun a movement into or inward
    entering.
  3. noun the act of entering
    entry; incoming; ingress; entering.
    • she made a grand entrance
  4. verb attract; cause to be enamored
    capture; bewitch; fascinate; enamour; trance; captivate; beguile; charm; catch; becharm; enchant; enamor.
    • She captured all the men's hearts
  5. verb put into a trance
    spellbind.

WordNet

En"trance noun
Etymology
OF. entrance, fr. OF. & F. entrant, p. pr. of entrer to enter. See Enter.
Definitions
  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. Shak.
  3. The passage, door, or gate, for entering.
    Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city. Judg. i. 24.
  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.
    St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his discourses, makes a kind of apology. Hakewill.
  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. Ham. Nav. Encyc. (b) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line. Totten.
En*trance" transitive verb
Etymology
Pref. en- + trance.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Entranced ; present participle & verbal noun Entrancing
Definitions
  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. Dryden.
  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. Dryden.

Webster 1913