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# entrance

«entrance» in Mova's school dictionary: **a door, gate or opening where you go into a place** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an entrance, entrances); verb (entrance, entrances, entranced, entrancing — to delight)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An entrance is a door, gate or opening where you go into a place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrance/#m1)

2) An entrance is the act of coming in, like an actor coming on stage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrance/#m2)

3) Entrance is the right to go in, as in an entrance fee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrance/#m3)

4) As a verb (stress on «TRANCE»), to entrance someone is to fill them with wonder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrance/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life buildings have a main entrance and emergency exits; tickets pay the entrance fee. In stories a character «makes a grand entrance». In maths problems an entrance fee is a price per person. Phrases: «the main entrance», «entrance fee», «make an entrance», «entrance exam».

### examples

- Meet me at the main entrance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrance/#x1)
- The entrance to the cave was dark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrance/#x2)
- The entrance fee is five dollars for children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrance/#x3)
- The queen made a grand entrance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrance/#x4)
- The school entrance is on the other side. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrance/#x5)
- The music entranced the audience. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrance/#x6)
- If the entrance fee is 3 pounds each, 4 children pay 12 pounds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrance/#x7)
- The name glittered in gas-jets over the entrance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrance/#x8)

### note

The noun is stressed on the first part, «EN-trance»; the verb on the second, «en-TRANCE». Opposite of the noun: «exit». Safety: learn where the exits are, not only the entrance.

### In the corpora

- [Marmot families live in big burrows with many entrances and sleep through winter for about half the year.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova/9/)
- [Some areas have grammar schools with their own separate entrance test, the 11-plus, which is not the SATs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic/9/)
- [A good meeting point is easy to find and does not move, such as a big sign or the entrance gate.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/332-going-to-the-doctor-and-staying-together-in-crowds/12/)
- [So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, at the entrance to Hamath.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.509/)
- [And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and there fell many wounded, even unto the entrance of the gate.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.300/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «entrance» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrance/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.