ENTRANCES
Etymology 1
See entrance (noun)
Noun
entrances
plural of entrance
Etymology 2
See entrance (verb)
Verb
entrances
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of entrance
Anagrams
• centenars, enneracts, rectennas, renascent
Source: Wiktionary
ENTRANCE
En"trance, n. Etym: [OF. entrance, fr. OF. & F. entrant, p. pr. 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. 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", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entranced; p. pr. & vb. n.
Entrancing.] Etym: [Pref. 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. 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition