entrance1 nounentrance2 verb
entranceen‧trance1 /ˈentrəns/ ●●● S3 W3 noun 
WORD ORIGINentrance1
Origin:
1400-1500 Old French entrer; ➔ ENTEREXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- college entrance examinations
- Davis used a side entrance to avoid the waiting reporters.
- It took us ages to find the entrance to the park.
- The price includes most meals and entrance fees to museums.
- Their conversation was interrupted by the entrance of four visitors.
- It makes my superfluous entrances and exits possible, that would have been difficult or undreamt-of, otherwise.
- It turns toward an expressway entrance only a few blocks away.
- Kragan turned right outside the hotel entrance and walked towards the Rue de Rivoli.
- The erasure, then, is more or less the same procedure as the entrance.
- The sole unit, quiet, with a separate outside entrance, sleeps four to five and has a kitchen.
- There were the usual grumbles, but they faded instantly as the ambulance backed up to the entrance, doors already opening.
- You waited at the entrance to Terminal One, saw me arrive in a taxi.
Longman Language Activatorsomewhere where you enter
: entrance to · It took us ages to find the entrance to the park.back/front/side entrance · Davis used a side entrance to avoid the waiting reporters.
American the door or space you go through to enter a place: · Over the entryway was an inscription in Latin.entry/entryway to/of: · We stopped at the entry to the church to admire the architecture.
the entrance to a large public building: · We walked all the way around the museum looking for the way in.· There's a red flashing sign above the door saying "Way In" - you can't miss it.
the way things are arranged so that the public can enter somewhere: · The entrance has been widened to give improved access for disabled people.access to: · City officials are considering building a path to give the public access to the ruins.
to enter a place · It was getting cold, so we went in.· There was a man at the door trying to stop people from going in.· Don't go in my room - it's a mess.go into something · Make sure you wipe your feet before you go into the house.
if someone comes in , they enter a room or building that you are in: · That must be Nina coming in right now.· As soon as Adrian came in, everyone stopped talking.· Why don't you come in the house for a little while and get warmed up.come into something: · When you first come into the building, you'll see the elevators just across the lobby.
formal to go or come into a room, building, or area: · You need a ticket to enter.· The army entered the city from the north.· As soon as he entered the room, he knew there was something wrong.
to succeed in entering a place, especially when this is difficult or takes a long time: · We queued in the rain for two hours and still didn't get in.· You usually have to wait a while before you can get in the club.get into something: · You shouldn't have any trouble getting into the concert - they've only sold half the tickets.
formal to succeed in entering a place or being allowed to enter, especially when this is difficult or takes a long time: · Brown gained admission by claiming to be a newspaper photographer.gain admission to: · We had to talk to several guards to gain admission to the courtyard.
to suddenly and noisily enter a room: · Two men with guns burst in and told us to lie on the floor.burst in on: · I ran back to Iris's and burst in on Polly who was ironing in the kitchen.burst into something: · Lotty burst into the room waving a letter in the air.
to suddenly enter a room where you are not wanted, for example because you are interrupting someone: · I was studying when Ben suddenly barged in.barge in on: · It's impossible to concentrate when people keep barging in on you.barge into something: · Some of the strikers came barging into the meeting and demanded to speak with the directors.
to enter somewhere in a way that makes the people who are already there notice you: · I waited until everybody was sitting quietly before making my entrance.make a grand entrance: · She walked slowly down the staircase, making a grand entrance.
to enter a place confidently and calmly, especially when other people would be a little nervous or embarrassed to enter: · Katie breezes in at eleven o'clock each morning, two hours late.breeze into something: · Giles just breezed into the office, used the phone, and then breezed out again.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYADJECTIVES/NOUN + entrance
a huge tiled entrance hall
· She found a parking space close to the hospital's main entrance.
· There is a long drive with steps leading to the front entrance.
· I could see part of the yard through the narrow entrance.
· There was a wide entrance at the front of the building.
· Our taxi pulled up outside the hotel entrance.
British English, the harbor entrance American English· We watched as the ferry approached the harbour entrance.
· At high tide, the tunnel entrance is totally submerged.
verbs· People passed in single file through the narrow entrance.
· It's quicker to use the side entrance.
· A large stone blocked the entrance to the tomb.
entrance + NOUN (=a room at the entrance to a building)· He walked through the front door into the entrance hall.
(=an area at the entrance to a large building)· There was no sign of her in the entrance foyer.
· Soldiers were guarding the entrance gate.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES (=in order to enter a school or university)· Jane passed the entrance exam but decided not to go.
(=to enter a school or university)· He had now failed the college entrance examination twice.
(=a fee to enter a place)· The gallery charges an entrance fee.
· Derek met us at the entrance gate.
a huge tiled entrance hall· To the right was the entrance to a second tunnel.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· There's no back entrance, no side entrance.· They had in mind a back entrance occasionally used by delivery trucks in the dead of night.· The back fly entrance has a single zip, giving a small bellend space to store a rucksack and boots.· As we return to the school we cut across the large paved parking lot and head for the back entrance.· It was parked outside the back entrance to a two-storey building.· With a sigh, Hari moved to the back entrance and knocked again.· I followed, and found a space in the car park near the back entrance to the supermarket.
· At the front entrance there are two wide door openings so access in and out is extremely good.· Police barricades were set up at the front entrance, and police cars occasionally circled the building.· As Brassard was leaving, he warned the security man at the front entrance that Celia was expecting a visitor.· Returning to the front entrance, he found Hendrix still waiting for her food, smoking yet another cigarette.· The steps at the front entrance were demolished and a ramp was constructed together with new steps.· They had been strictly segregated from the ladies and gentlemen who entered by the front entrance and walked on carpet.· She turned from the front entrance.· Flats with shared front entrances are not particularly desirable either, even if they do have entry phones fitted.
· In peace and war, the Union Flag has fluttered above the main entrance.· And there are just four X-ray portals at the main entrance to Olympic Park.· This prime site is adjacent to the dual carriageway at the main entrance to the port.· Koi swim in a pond just inside the main entrance.· On the pediment of the main entrance, the gold hands of the blue-painted clock moved towards the hour.· She found a parking space close to the main entrance.· There is a sudden flurry outside the main entrance, a Gothic porch.· As we got closer, we could see that the Hall was a heavy, dark building with a large main entrance.
· The nearest rear entrance belonged to a home bakery.· From there, a quiet backstreet led to the rear entrance of her apartment block.· I got dressed and went into the barn and looked for the old wooden trunk near the rear entrance.· They did however have the convenience of a rear entrance.· She garaged her car and thought briefly of entering the apartment block by the rear entrance.· Beside it was an alleyway which provided rear entrances to a row of Botanic Avenue shops.
· She confirmed that when seeing each other they always tried to use separate entrances and exits.· We already have two bathrooms and two separate entrances.· When the second car, 762 was rebuilt, a new layout with separate entrance and exit was included.· The sole unit, quiet, with a separate outside entrance, sleeps four to five and has a kitchen.· The Studios have a separate entrance in Harrison Street and have direct access to the Stalls seating area.· There are three types of apartment available each with separate entrance.
NOUN· Just inside the big double entrance doors were hundreds of tiles which never seemed to be sold.· He asked if Adrian had posted the Closed sign on the entrance door.· A short flight of stairs adjoins each entrance door and leads down to the central sleeping area.· Occasionally, l glanced at the entrance door.· The entrance to the site is close to the entrance doors.
· Even so, without his father's family connection he wouldn't have scraped through the entrance exam.· An entrance exam guides students into one of four academic tracks, ranging from highly gifted to remedial.· He failed a university entrance exam.· She was still holding the newspaper clipping about the woman who committed suicide when her son failed his college entrance exam.· It is another two years before they sit their university entrance exam.· There are juku to help four-year-olds pass entrance exams for elite kindergartens.· Students often have a good idea of what scores they need on college-entrance exams to earn acceptance letters and scholarships.· There are even juku to help kids pass entrance exams to get into prestigious juku.
· Voice over Professors flew in especially from Prague to supervise the entrance examinations and emphasise the benefits of studying in their country.· He claimed to have taken entrance examinations for Stevens, but no records remain.· Having passed the entrance examinations he joined as an Aircraft Apprentice at Halton in August 1928.· There had been a rush to take part when the national college entrance examination was restored in 1977.
· All except the 25 pence of the £4.25 entrance fee goes to the rider coming second.· Of them, 186 collect an entrance fee.· We not only pay an entrance fee to access these facilities, we also pay a community charge for local amenities.· After a major uproar, that was trashed and replaced with an $ 11 entrance fee.· But the not-so-bright can sometimes secure a place if the parents stump up a large entrance fee.· For example, the entrance fee at Yosemite is now $ 5.· The entrance fee was another 15 dollars but this is nothing to Nikitenko.· Strangers may be politely questioned before paying the $ 16 entrance fee.
· The two co-exist as memories of their cultures, with a healthy clash where the two collide in the entrance foyer.· Today the art teacher, Charlotte Bond, and several students are working on the mural in the entrance foyer.· There was no sign of her in the entrance foyer, nor in the street outside.· The entrance foyer was packed when Georg sidled in that evening, hoping that no-one would see him and recognize him.· The original entrance foyer on the main road behind the square was barred and boarded and papered over with layers of handbills.· Bordered designs were used throughout the remaining passageways with a Chlidema square for the entrance foyer inset in a marble surround.
· The old citadel remains; a fortified entrance gate, a ruined keep, some fine slabs of wall.· Three Miramar entrance gates -- main, north and west -- will be open for visitors.· The Usher Art Gallery decided that it needed to replace its imposing main entrance gates which were taken away in the war.· The single entrance gate bears a lock from the age of dungeons.· However, those who passed through the entrance gates where Hades stood might never return to the mortal world.· The windows overlooked the long drive to distant entrance gates.
· The origins of the hotel are also apparent in the impressive entrance hall, cocktail bar and lounge.· The second entrance hall is bigger with more marble, a grim but opulent place.· Internally, the only significant architectural feature was the two-storey entrance hall, and this is to be retained.· There was a glass cupola in the entrance hall reached from an attic suite with exposed beams.· But at least they had removed the studio photograph of a royal princess which until recently had graced the entrance hall.· The entrance hall was lit by three light pillars.· Both the entrance hall and the grand banqueting room on the first floor can be hired.· The entrance hall of the hotel was as big as a railway station itself.
· For mature candidates, there are modified entrance requirements.· Develop performance-based admissions standards in addition to, or in place of, more traditional entrance requirements.· Normal entrance requirements for degree courses should apply, and parallel courses should make differentiated demands on students.· The Columbia program was enjoying enormous popularity because it offered the widest possible latitude both in studies and in its entrance requirements.· In view of the competition for places, all applicants are required to have covered the same basic entrance requirements.· Food fights have no entrance requirements.· Passes counting towards entrance requirements must be obtained at no more than two sittings of examinations.
· The resident here has clamped his opponent and is lifting him away from the tunnel entrance.· Half way down was a stone arch over the tunnel entrance.· Railway builders gave a special dignity and significance to the treatment of tunnel entrances.· The nettles in the tunnel entrance had been partially flattened.
· He failed a university entrance exam.· It is another two years before they sit their university entrance exam.· The social class bias in university entrance is not matched by a corresponding bias in university performance.
VERB· The travellers had already been thwarted by Gloucestershire police, who blocked entrances to a site in the Forest of Dean.· The rubble had temporarily blocked the entrance to the cavern below the Horseshoe Falls.· They have defied bailiffs by blocking the entrance to the building.· Five were arrested on a charge of trying to block an entrance to the Treasury Building.· The stone that blocked the entrance to the tomb was placed there for a purpose.· In London, two skips and six barrels full of toxic waste blocked the front entrance to the environment building.· They blocked the entrances in protest at what they claim is the unnecessary culling of badgers organised from the base.· We arrived at one which blocked one of the entrances to Debenham.
· Picking her way over the rough ground and through the hazards, she gained the kitchen entrance.· About fifty people attempted to gain entrance, but were held back by the police.· She will gain entrance to the text through a consideration of how articles of clothing function for women and for men.· But there are the keys, without which the adventurers can not gain entrance to vital areas of the Castle.
· The woman guarding the entrance way does not wish to know this.· We failed to clear the farther islands which guard the entrance, and had to turn back to Po Ti.· They see that the stone guarding the entrance to the sepulchre has been rolled away.· Draitser retaliated by posting security guards at the hotel entrance to bar Tatum.· But the camera was designed to guard the lift entrance, and not show what lay beyond.· Minders guarded the entrance as they played in the hot jets.· Now look up at the towers guarding the entrance to Charles Bridge.
· He dropped us in a short street which led to the entrance to the Taj.· A walkway from the street, set off from the sidewalk by a stone wall, led to a side entrance.
· It makes my superfluous entrances and exits possible, that would have been difficult or undreamt-of, otherwise.· Conscious work on negative emotions makes the entrance of positive emotions more and more certain, as each day passes.· He made for the central entrance to the choir under the organ and almost collided with Dhani, who giggled.· By the time Johnson made his second-half entrance with 7: 05 left, it was 67-47.· One of the things I remember about Michael was him waiting to make his entrance each night.· She was letting me make my entrance.· Characters made their entrances from the two lifts and swept down the stairs to their appointed places.· Dominic used to love making an entrance.
· It would mark our open entrance into the field of politics.· The Parkins' house stood in a drive marked at the entrance with a notice restricting access to residents only.· Use an arbor to frame a view or to mark the entrance to a path, he suggests.· After a twenty-minute drive, Blanche spotted a notice marking the entrance to Malbis Castle.· An hour later, we made our way to the flashing beacons marking the entrance to Channel Islands Harbor.
· As I reached the entrance to the lift the iron concertina gate clattered open.· They reached the entrance to what was probably the least damaged of the buildings, long and windowless.· They reached the entrance in mutual silence and, seething in mounting outrage, she was propelled inside.· Duregar's army moved steadily southwards until it reached the eastern entrance to Death Pass.· Renwick shook off the effects of his talk with Lorna Upwood and concentrated on reaching the entrance to this enormous building.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
- The hero doesn't make his entrance until Act II, Scene 2.
- With her long fur coat, she always made a dramatic entrance.
- Dominic used to love making an entrance.
- Drunk or crazy, the tall man had made an entrance worthy of Henry Irving.
- Frankie tells the audience how the Producers had wanted him to make an entrance by sliding down a fireman's pole!
- With the separation and distinction, light and life can make an entrance.
WORD FAMILYnounentranceentrantentryverbenter
1[countable] a door, gate etc that you go through to enter a place OPP exitentrance to/of the main entrance to the schoolfront/back/side entrance the station entranceentrance hall/foyer/gate etc2[countable usually singular] the act of entering a place or room, especially in a way that people notice: Bridget made a dramatic entrance into the room.3[uncountable] the right or ability to go into a placeentrance to Entrance to the museum is free. Reporters even managed to gain entrance to her hotel. How much is the entrance fee (=money you pay to get in somewhere)?4[uncountable] permission to become a member of or become involved in a profession, university, society etc: the initial interview for entrance to the Civil Service entrance examinations5[countable] when a person, country, organization etc first becomes involved in a particular area of activityentrance into The referendum blocked Switzerland’s entrance into the European Economic Area.6make your/an entrance to come onto the stage in a playCOLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + entrancethe main entrance· She found a parking space close to the hospital's main entrance.the front/back/rear/side entrance· There is a long drive with steps leading to the front entrance.a narrow entrance· I could see part of the yard through the narrow entrance.a wide entrance· There was a wide entrance at the front of the building.the hotel/hospital/museum etc entrance· Our taxi pulled up outside the hotel entrance.the harbour entrance British English, the harbor entrance American English· We watched as the ferry approached the harbour entrance.the tunnel entrance· At high tide, the tunnel entrance is totally submerged.verbscome/go/pass etc through an entrance· People passed in single file through the narrow entrance.use an entrance· It's quicker to use the side entrance.block an entrance· A large stone blocked the entrance to the tomb.entrance + NOUNan entrance hall (=a room at the entrance to a building)· He walked through the front door into the entrance hall.an entrance lobby/foyer (=an area at the entrance to a large building)· There was no sign of her in the entrance foyer.an entrance gate/door· Soldiers were guarding the entrance gate.entrance1 nounentrance2 verb
entranceen‧trance2 /ɪnˈtrɑːns $ -ˈtræns/ verb [transitive] literary WORD ORIGINentrance2
Origin:
1500-1600 tranceVERB TABLE
entrance
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | entrance |
| he, she, it | entrances | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | entranced |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have entranced |
| he, she, it | has entranced | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had entranced |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will entrance |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have entranced |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am entrancing |
| he, she, it | is entrancing | |
| you, we, they | are entrancing | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was entrancing |
| you, we, they | were entrancing | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been entrancing |
| he, she, it | has been entrancing | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been entrancing |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be entrancing |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been entrancing |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- I was entranced by her sheer beauty.
- He was immediately entranced by her voice and built a band called Ton Ton Macoute around her.
- Her icy, delicate beauty entranced Kay.
- Jockey shorts on sale in outdoor bins on Broadway entrance him.
- You know I did, I was entranced by them the other day.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a huge tiled entrance hall
if you are entranced by someone or something, you give them all your attention because they are so beautiful, interesting etc: (=in order to enter a school or university)· Jane passed the entrance exam but decided not to go.
(=to enter a school or university)· He had now failed the college entrance examination twice.
(=a fee to enter a place)· The gallery charges an entrance fee.
· Derek met us at the entrance gate.
a huge tiled entrance hall· To the right was the entrance to a second tunnel.
I was entranced by the sweetness of her voice.GRAMMAR Entrance is usually passive.—entranced adjective: She stopped, entranced.—entrancing adjective: entrancing stories