ENTRANCE

noun the passage, door, or gate, for entering.

2. entrance ·vt to put into a trance; to make insensible to present objects.

3. entrance ·noun the bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.

4. entrance ·noun liberty, power, or permission to enter; as, to give entrance to friends.

5. entrance ·noun the angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.

6. entrance ·vt to put into an ecstasy; to ravish with delight or wonder; to enrapture; to charm.

7. entrance ·noun the entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation; as, a difficult entrance into business.

8. entrance ·noun 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.

9. entrance ·noun 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.