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# entrant

«entrant» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person, team or animal that enters a competition, race…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an entrant, entrants)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person, team or animal that enters a competition, race or exam. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrant/#m1)

2) A person who joins a school, job or profession as a newcomer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrant/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In olympiads, races and contests an entrant is one who takes part. In maths problems the number of entrants is how many people take part. Phrases: «each entrant», «new entrants», «the youngest entrant».

### examples

- There were forty entrants in the spelling bee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrant/#x1)
- Each entrant gets a number to pin on their shirt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrant/#x2)
- The youngest entrant in the race was only seven. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrant/#x3)
- All entrants must hand in their poems by Friday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrant/#x4)
- The cake competition had more entrants than last year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrant/#x5)
- New entrants to the school get a buddy for the first week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrant/#x6)
- If each of 12 entrants pays £2, the prize fund is £24. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrant/#x7)

### note

Countable; plural «entrants». Do not confuse with «entrance» (a way in, a door). Related verb «enter», noun «entry». In maths, «entrants» are the people counted, not the prizes or places.

### Trees and pragmatics

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