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Definition of Entrance
Entrance

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.

Liberty, power, or permission to enter; as, to give entrance to friends.

The passage, door, or gate, for entering.

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

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.

The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.

The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.

To put into a trance; to make insensible to present objects.

To put into an ecstasy; to ravish with delight or wonder; to enrapture; to charm.

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Entrance Quotations

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
Michel de Montaigne

You start where you can get an opportunity, you take everything that you can do to gain entrance. You do the little work and you try to find people who can teach you.
Jon Voight

When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.
Andrew C. Bradley

To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.
Jennifer Granholm

They view massive immigration as a massive infusion of potential voters for the Democratic Party, and therefore will do nothing, absolutely nothing to stop that flow of legal or illegal entrance into the country.
Tom Tancredo

Entrance Translations

entrance in Afrikaans is toegang
entrance in Danish is indgang
entrance in Dutch is entree, ingang, toegang
entrance in German is Einsprungstelle, Eingang, Eingang, Eintritt
entrance in Italian is entrata, ingresso, entrata
entrance in Latin is ostium, porta, foris
entrance in Norwegian is adgang, inngang
entrance in Portuguese is entrada
entrance in Spanish is entrada, embocadura

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