- the act of entering
"she made a grand entrance"

- something that provides access (entry or exit)
"they waited at the entrance to the garden"
"beggars waited just outside the entryway to the cathedral"

- a movement into or inward

- put into a trance

- attract

- cause to be enamored
"She captured all the men''s hearts"

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.

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.