Entrance
Entrance , noun
[Old French entrance, from Old French & French entrant, present participle of entrer to enter. See Enter.]
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. — Shakespeare
3.
The passage, door, or gate, for entering.
Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city.
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.
St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his discourses, makes a kind of apology.
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.
(a) (Nautical) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.
(b)
(Nautical) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line. — Ham. Nav. Encyc
Entrance , transitive verb
[Prefix en- + trance.]
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.
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.