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noun · 20 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • ĕnʹtrē
  • /ˈɛntɹi/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

The act of entering.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • The wrestler's dramatic entry into the stadium was very impressive.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Permission to enter.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Examples

  • Children are allowed entry only if accompanied by an adult.
  • Strictly no entry for under-18s

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A doorway that provides a means of entering a building.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

The act of taking possession.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: law

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

The start of an insurance contract.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: business, insurance

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

A passageway between terraced houses that provides a means of entering a back garden or yard.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Midlands, countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

A small room immediately inside the front door of a house or other building, often having an access to a stairway and leading on to other rooms.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

A small group formed within a church, especially Episcopal, for simple dinner and fellowship, and to help facilitate new friendships.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

An item in a list, such as an article in a dictionary or encyclopedia.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • Meronym: headword (sometimes synonymous)
  • The entry on spiders is on page number 69.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

A record made in a log, diary or anything similarly organized; (computing) a datum in a database.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • What does the entry for 2 August 2005 say?

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

noun

Meaning 11

A term at any position in a matrix.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: linear-algebra, mathematics, sciences

Examples

  • The entry in the second row and first column of this matrix is 6.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure licence to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

noun

Meaning 13

The point when a musician starts to play or sing; entrance.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

noun

Meaning 14

The introduction of new hounds into a pack.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: hobbies, hunting, lifestyle

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

15

noun

Meaning 15

the act of entering

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • she made a grand entrance

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: entrance, entering, ingress, incoming

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: arrival

Narrower terms: incursion, intrusion, irruption, entree, registration, enrollment, enrolment, penetration, admission, admittance

16

noun

Meaning 16

the act of beginning something new

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • they looked forward to the debut of their new product line

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: introduction, debut, first appearance, launching, unveiling

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: beginning, start, commencement

Narrower terms: induction, product introduction, ushering in, naturalization, naturalisation

17

noun

Meaning 17

something that provides access (to get in or get out)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • they waited at the entrance to the garden
  • beggars waited just outside the entryway to the cathedral

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: entrance, entranceway, entryway, entree

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: access, approach

Narrower terms: arch, archway, doorway, door, room access, threshold, gateway, hatchway, opening, scuttle, pithead, portal, porte-cochere, service door, service entrance, servant's entrance, stage door, vomitory

18

noun

Meaning 18

an item inserted in a written record

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: written record, written account

Narrower terms: lexical entry, dictionary entry, nolle prosequi, nol pros, notebook entry

19

noun

Meaning 19

something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • several of his submissions were rejected by publishers
  • what was the date of submission of your proposal?

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: submission

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: message, content, subject matter, substance

Narrower terms: filing

20

noun

Meaning 20

a written record of a commercial transaction

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: accounting entry, ledger entry

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: accounting, accounting system, method of accounting

Narrower terms: adjusting entry, credit, credit entry, debit, debit entry

History

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English entre, from Old French entree (feminine past participle of the verb entrer, Modern French entrée). From Latin intrō. Doublet of entrada and entrée.

Across languages

Translations

264 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Southern Altai: кириш (kiriš) — act of entering
  • Arabic: إِدْخَال (ʔidḵāl) — act of entering
  • Bulgarian: вли́зане (vlízane) — act of entering
  • Catalan: entrada — act of entering
  • Chinese Mandarin: 進入 /进入 (jìnrù) — act of entering
  • Czech: vstup — act of entering
  • Danish: indgang — act of entering
  • Danish: ankomst — act of entering
  • Danish: entré — act of entering
  • Dutch: invoer — act of entering
  • Finnish: sisääntulo — act of entering
  • Finnish: saapuminen — act of entering
  • French: entrée — act of entering
  • German: Eintritt — act of entering
  • Greek: είσοδος (eísodos) — act of entering
  • Ancient Greek: εἴσοδος (eísodos) — act of entering
  • Hindi: प्रवेश करना (praveś karnā) — act of entering
  • Hungarian: belépés — act of entering
  • Hungarian: bemenetel — act of entering
  • Hungarian: bejövetel — act of entering
  • Hungarian: behatolás — act of entering
  • Hungarian: behajtás — act of entering
  • Indonesian: masuk — act of entering
  • Italian: entrata — act of entering
  • Italian: ingresso — act of entering
  • Ivatan: asdepan — act of entering
  • Japanese: 入ること (hairu koto) — act of entering
  • Korean: 들어가기 (deureogagi) — act of entering
  • Middle English: entre — act of entering
  • Mizo: luh — act of entering
  • Mizo: luhna — act of entering
  • Persian: ورود (vorud) — act of entering
  • Persian: درآمدن (dar-âmadan) — act of entering
  • Polish: wejście — act of entering
  • Portuguese: entrada — act of entering
  • Romanian: intrare — act of entering
  • Russian: вход (vxod) — act of entering
  • Russian: въезд (vʺjezd) — act of entering
  • Spanish: entrada — act of entering
  • Swedish: ingång — act of entering
  • Swedish: ankomst — act of entering
  • Swedish: inträde — act of entering
  • Turkish: giriş — act of entering
  • Walloon: intrêye — act of entering
  • Arabic: وُلُوج (wulūj) — permission to enter
  • Arabic: نَفَاذ (nafāḏ) — permission to enter
  • Arabic: نَفَّاذ (naffāḏ) — permission to enter
  • Bulgarian: до́стъп (dóstǎp) — permission to enter
  • Catalan: entrada — permission to enter
  • Catalan: accés — permission to enter
  • Danish: adgang — permission to enter
  • Danish: passage — permission to enter
  • Dutch: toegang — permission to enter
  • Finnish: pääsy — permission to enter
  • Finnish: sisäänpääsy — permission to enter
  • French: entrée — permission to enter
  • French: accès — permission to enter
  • German: Zutritt — permission to enter
  • Greek: είσοδος (eísodos) — permission to enter
  • Hindi: प्रवेश अनुमति (praveś anumti) — permission to enter
  • Italian: entrata — permission to enter
  • Italian: accesso — permission to enter
  • Japanese: エントリ (entori) — permission to enter
  • Korean: 엔트리 (enteuri) — permission to enter
  • Middle English: entre — permission to enter
  • Mizo: luh phalna — permission to enter
  • Polish: wstęp — permission to enter
  • Polish: wjazd — permission to enter
  • Portuguese: acesso — permission to enter
  • Romanian: acces — permission to enter
  • Russian: вступле́ние (vstuplénije) — permission to enter
  • Spanish: entrada — permission to enter
  • Spanish: acceso — permission to enter
  • Swedish: tillträde — permission to enter
  • Tamil: உள்நுழைவதற்கு அனுமதி (uḷnuḻaivataṟku aṉumati) — permission to enter
  • Walloon: intrêye — permission to enter
  • Arabic: مَدْخَل (madḵal) — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • Arabic: دُخُول (duḵūl) — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • Bulgarian: вход (vhod) — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • Catalan: entrada — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • Chinese Mandarin: 入口 (rùkǒu) — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • Danish: indgang — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • Danish: entré — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • Dutch: ingang — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • Finnish: sisäänkäynti — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • French: entrée — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • French: accès — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • German: Eingang — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • Greek: είσοδος (eísodos) — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • Ancient Greek: εἴσοδος (eísodos) — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • Hindi: प्रवेश (praveś) — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • Hungarian: bejárat — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • Italian: entrata — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • Italian: accesso — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • Italian: via di accesso — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • Italian: uscio — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • Japanese: 入口 (iriguchi) — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • Korean: 입구 (ipgu) — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • Ladin: ntreda — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • Middle English: entre — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • Mizo: luhna — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • Persian: ورودی (vorudi) — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • Persian: درگاه (dargâh) — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • Polish: wejście — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • Portuguese: entrada — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • Russian: вход (vxod) — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • Russian: въезд (vʺjezd) — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • Spanish: entrada — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • Spanish: acceso — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • Swedish: ingång — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • Swedish: entré — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • Walloon: intrêye — doorway that provides a means of entering a building
  • Finnish: haltuunotto — legal: act of taking possession
  • Middle English: entre — legal: act of taking possession
  • Finnish: käytävä — passageway between terraced houses
  • Bulgarian: вестибю́л (vestibjúl) — room immediately inside the front door
  • Danish: entré — room immediately inside the front door
  • Dutch: entree — room immediately inside the front door
  • Finnish: eteinen — room immediately inside the front door
  • French: entrée — room immediately inside the front door
  • French: vestibule — room immediately inside the front door
  • German: Flur — room immediately inside the front door
  • Greek: προθάλαμος (prothálamos) — room immediately inside the front door
  • Hungarian: előszoba — room immediately inside the front door
  • Hungarian: előtér — room immediately inside the front door
  • Hungarian: előcsarnok — room immediately inside the front door
  • Italian: entrata — room immediately inside the front door
  • Italian: ingresso — room immediately inside the front door
  • Persian: سرسرا (sarsarâ) — room immediately inside the front door
  • Portuguese: entrada — room immediately inside the front door
  • Russian: вход (vxod) — room immediately inside the front door
  • Russian: прихо́жая (prixóžaja) — room immediately inside the front door
  • Russian: вестибю́ль (vestibjúlʹ) — room immediately inside the front door
  • Spanish: entrada — room immediately inside the front door
  • Spanish: recibidor — room immediately inside the front door
  • Spanish: vestíbulo — room immediately inside the front door
  • Swedish: farstu — room immediately inside the front door
  • Swedish: hall — room immediately inside the front door
  • Swedish: entré — room immediately inside the front door
  • Tamil: அரை (arai) — room immediately inside the front door
  • Turkish: kapı — room immediately inside the front door
  • Walloon: poice — room immediately inside the front door
  • Walloon: tchapå — room immediately inside the front door
  • Walloon: colidôr — room immediately inside the front door
  • Finnish: piiri — group within a church
  • Arabic: مَدْخَل (madḵal) — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Arabic: مُدْخَل (mudḵal) — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Arabic: قَيْد (qayd) — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Arabic: مَادَّة (mādda) — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Arabic: بَنْد (band) — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Arabic: فِقْرَة (fiqra) — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Arabic: مُفْرَدَة (mufrada) — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Armenian: հոդված (hodvac) — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Basque: sarrera — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Belarusian: арты́кул (artýkul) — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Belarusian: за́піс (zápis) — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Bulgarian: ста́тия (státija) — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Catalan: entrada — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Chinese Mandarin: 條目 /条目 (tiáomù) — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Chinese Mandarin: 詞條 /词条 (cítiáo) — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Chinese Mandarin: 項目 /项目 (xiàngmù) — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Chinese Mandarin: 標題語 /标题语 (biāotíyǔ) — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Czech: heslo — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Danish: opslag — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Danish: opslagsord — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Danish: artikel — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Dutch: trefwoord — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Dutch: artikel — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Dutch: lemma — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Finnish: artikkeli — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Finnish: hakusana — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • French: article — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • French: rubrique — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Georgian: სასათაურო სიტყვა (sasatauro siṭq̇va) — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Georgian: ვოკაბულა (voḳabula) — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • German: Eintrag — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Greek: καταχώριση (katachórisi) — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Hungarian: szócikk — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Icelandic: fletta — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Indonesian: lema — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Irish: iontráil — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Italian: articolo — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Italian: lemma — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Italian: vocabolo — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Italian: voce — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Japanese: 項目 (kōmoku) — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Khmer: មេពាក្យ (mei piək) — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Korean: 항목 (hangmok) — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Korean: 표제어 (pyojeeo) — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Latvian: šķirklis — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Macedonian: одредница (odrednica) — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Māori: tāurunga — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Mizo: thuziak — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Mizo: dah-luh — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Norwegian Bokmål: oppslagsord — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: oppslagsord — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Persian: درآمد (dar-âmad) — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Persian: مدخل (madxal) — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Persian: درایه (darâye) — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Polish: hasło — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Portuguese: verbete — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Portuguese: entrada — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Russian: статья́ (statʹjá) — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Russian: за́пись (zápisʹ) — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Serbo-Croatian: одредница — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Serbo-Croatian: натукница — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Serbo-Croatian: odrednica — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Serbo-Croatian: natuknica — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Slovak: heslo — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Spanish: artículo — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Spanish: entrada — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Swedish: uppslag — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Swedish: uppslagsord — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Swedish: artikel — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Ukrainian: стаття́ (stattjá) — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Ukrainian: за́пис (zápys) — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Vietnamese: mục từ — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Walloon: intrêye — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Walloon: djivion — article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
  • Arabic: دَفْتَر (daftar) — record in a log or in a database
  • Arabic: مَدْخَل (madḵal) — record in a log or in a database
  • Basque: sarrera — record in a log or in a database
  • Chinese Mandarin: 記錄 /记录 (jìlù) — record in a log or in a database
  • Czech: položka — record in a log or in a database
  • Dutch: post — record in a log or in a database
  • Dutch: notitie — record in a log or in a database
  • Finnish: merkintä — record in a log or in a database
  • French: élément — record in a log or in a database
  • French: article — record in a log or in a database
  • French: enregistrement — record in a log or in a database
  • French: rubrique — record in a log or in a database
  • German: Eintrag — record in a log or in a database
  • Greek: καταχώριση (katachórisi) — record in a log or in a database
  • Hungarian: bejegyzés — record in a log or in a database
  • Hungarian: feljegyzés — record in a log or in a database
  • Indonesian: ayat — record in a log or in a database
  • Irish: iontráil — record in a log or in a database
  • Macedonian: одредница (odrednica) — record in a log or in a database
  • Māori: tāurunga — record in a log or in a database
  • Middle English: entre — record in a log or in a database
  • Norwegian: innlegg — record in a log or in a database
  • Polish: wpis — record in a log or in a database
  • Portuguese: registro — record in a log or in a database
  • Russian: за́пись (zápisʹ) — record in a log or in a database
  • Spanish: registro — record in a log or in a database
  • Spanish: entrada — record in a log or in a database
  • Swedish: post — record in a log or in a database
  • Swedish: uppslag — record in a log or in a database
  • Dutch: element — term in a matrix
  • Estonian: element — term in a matrix
  • Finnish: alkio — term in a matrix
  • French: coefficient — term in a matrix
  • French: élément — term in a matrix
  • German: Element — term in a matrix
  • Italian: entrata — term in a matrix
  • Japanese: 要素 (yōso) — term in a matrix
  • Persian: درایه (darâye) — term in a matrix
  • Portuguese: elemento — term in a matrix
  • Russian: элеме́нт (elemént) — term in a matrix
  • Spanish: elemento — term in a matrix
  • Spanish: entrada — term in a matrix
  • Swedish: element — term in a matrix
  • Finnish: tulliselvitys — exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse
  • Finnish: aloitus — music: point when a musician starts to perform
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