From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Entrance \En"trance\, noun [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Entrance \En*trance"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Entranced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Entrancing}.] [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: something that provides access (entry or exit); "they waited at the entrance to the garden"; "beggars waited just outside the entryway to the cathedral" [syn: {entranceway}, {entryway}, {entry}, {entree}]
2: a movement into or inward [syn: {entering}]
3: the act of entering; "she made a grand entrance" [syn: {entering}, {entry}, {ingress}, {incoming}]
verb
1: attract; cause to be enamored; "She captured all the men's hearts" [syn: {capture}, {enamour}, {trance}, {catch}, {becharm}, {enamor}, {captivate}, {beguile}, {charm}, {fascinate}, {bewitch}, {enchant}]
2: put into a trance [syn: {spellbind}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
169 Moby Thesaurus words for "entrance": access, adit, admission, admittance, air lock, anesthetize, aperture, appearance, approach, arrival, attract, becharm, beginning, beguile, bewitch, captivate, carry away, cast a spell, channel, charm, coming, coming in, commencement, conduit, corridor, course, delectate, delight, ditch, door, doorway, dope, drug, duct, egress, embedment, enchant, encroachment, enrapture, enravish, enthrall, entrance hall, entranceway, entree, entrenchment, entry, entryway, exit, fascinate, foyer, freak out, galilee, gangplank, gangway, gate, gladden, graft, grafting, hall, hypnotize, impaction, impactment, imparadise, impingement, implantation, import, importation, importing, imposition, in, income, incoming, incursion, infatuate, infiltration, infixion, influx, infringement, infusion, ingoing, ingress, ingression, injection, inlet, inoculation, input, inroad, insertion, insinuation, intake, interference, interjection, interloping, interpenetration, interpolation, interposition, interposure, interruption, intervention, intrigue, introduction, introgression, intromission, intrusion, invasion, irruption, knock dead, knock out, leakage, lobby, lull to sleep, magnetize, means of access, mesmerize, narcotize, narthex, obtrusion, open arms, open door, opening, overpower, passage, passageway, penetration, percolation, perfusion, please, portal, portico, propylaeum, put to sleep, put under, ravish, reception, rejoice, right of entry, rock to sleep, sedate, seepage, send, slay, spell, spellbind, start, stoa, tessellation, threshold, thrill, tickle, tickle pink, titillate, trance, transplant, transplantation, transport, trench, trespass, trespassing, trough, troughing, troughway, tunnel, unlawful entry, vamp, vestibule, way, way in, witch, wow
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