entrance
The definition of an entrance is where you go in someplace, such as a door, or coming into someplace in a memorable way, or an actor coming on stage.
(noun)- The front door to your home is an example of an entrance.
- When you sweep into a room and all eyes turn to look at you, this is an example of a situation where you have made an entrance.
- When an actor comes onto the stage, this is an example of his entrance.
To entrance is defined as to cast a spell on someone or to fill someone with wonder.
(verb)When you capture someone's attention and fill him with wonder, this is an example of a time when you entrance him.
See entrance in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- the act or point of entering: to make an entrance
- a place for entering; door, gate, etc.
- permission, right, or power to enter; admission
Origin: ME entraunce < OFr entrant, prp. of entrer: see enter
transitive verb entranced, entrancing
- to put into a trance
- to fill with rapture or delight; enchant; charm; enrapture
Related Forms:
- entrancement noun
- entrancingly adverb
See entrance in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- The act or an instance of entering.
- A means or point by which to enter.
- Permission or power to enter; admission: gained entrance to medical school.
- The point, as in a musical score, at which a performer begins.
- The first entry of an actor into a scene.
- Nautical The immersed part of a ship's hull forward of the middle body.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English entraunce, right to enter
Origin: , from Old French
Origin: , from entrer, to enter; see enter
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