Word Meanings - ENTRANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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
Additional info about word: ENTRANCE
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. The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line. Ham. Nav. Encyc. The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line. Totten.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ENTRANCE)
- Admittance
- Introduction
- entrance
- pass
- permit
- passport
- privilege
- acceptance
- welcome
- reception
- Approach
- Access
- avenue
- adit
- vestibule
- arrival
- approximation
- advent
- Bearing
- admission
- appropinquation
- admittance
- mode
- path
- way
- advance
- similarity
- Avenue
- access
- Bewitch
- Enchant
- fascinate
- charm
- captivate
- Enrapture
- Beatify
- enchant
- bewitch
- transport
- attract
- ravish
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ENTRANCE)
Related words: (words related to ENTRANCE)
- RAVISHER
One who ravishes . - PERMIT
1. To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with. What things God doth neither command nor forbid . . . he permitteth with approbation either to be done or left undone. Hooker. 2. To grant express license or liberty - SUPPRESSOR
One who suppresses. - ADVENTIST
One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also Second Adventists. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. - CAPTIVATE
1. To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue. Their woes whom fortune captivates. Shak. 2. To acquire ascendancy over by reason of some art or attraction; to fascinate; to charm; as, Cleopatra captivated Antony; the orator captivated all hearts. - TRANSPORTING
That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble. - ADVENTIVE
Adventitious. Gray. (more info) 1. Accidental. - RETREATFUL
Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman. - ATTRACTABILITY
The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones. - TRANSPORTAL
Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin. - TRANSPORTABILITY
The quality or state of being transportable. - ATTRACTILE
Having power to attract. - ADVENTURESS
A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means. - APPROXIMATION
1. The act of approximating; a drawing, advancing or being near; approach; also, the result of approximating. The largest capacity and the most noble dispositions are but an approximation to the proper standard and true symmetry of human nature. - PERMITTER
One who permits. A permitter, or not a hinderer, of sin. J. Edwards. - RETREATMENT
The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey. - ADVENTUROUSNESS
The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness. - RAVISHING
Rapturous; transporting. - BEWITCHING
Having power to bewitch or fascinate; enchanting; captivating; charming. -- Be*witch"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*witch"ing*ness, n. - TRANSPORTED
Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced. -- Trans*port"ed*ly, adv. -- Trans*port"ed*ness, n. - WATER-BEARER
The constellation Aquarius. - SHIELD-BEARER
Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield. - NONARRIVAL
Failure to arrive. - MISTRANSPORT
To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall. - SEABEARD
A green seaweed growing in dense tufts. - DOWNBEAR
To bear down; to depress. - REACCESS
A second access or approach; a return. Hakewill. - BLUEBEARD
The hero of a mediƦval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it - INSUPPRESSIBLE
That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.