entrance

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The act or an instance of entering.
2. n. A means or point by which to enter.
3. n. Permission or power to enter; admission: gained entrance to medical school.
4. n. The point, as in a musical score, at which a performer begins.
5. n. The first entry of an actor into a scene.
6. n. Nautical The immersed part of a ship's hull forward of the middle body.
7. v. To put into a trance.
8. v. To fill with delight, wonder, or enchantment: a child who was entranced by a fairy tale. See Synonyms at charm, enrapture.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The act of entering, as a place, an occupation, a period of time, etc.; a going or coming into; hence, accession; the act of entering into possession: with into or upon: as, the entrance of a person into a room; the entrance of an army; one's entrance upon study, into business, into or upon the affairs of life, or upon his twentieth year; the entrance of a man into office, or upon the duties of his office; the entrance of an heir into his estate.
2. n. The power or liberty of entering; admission.
3. n. Means or place of access; an opening for admission; an inlet: as, the entrance to a house or a harbor.
4. n. An entering upon or into a course, a subject, or the like; beginning; initiation; introduction.
5. n. A report by the master of a vessel, first in person and afterward in writing, of its arrival at port to the chief officer of customs residing there, in the manner prescribed by law.
6. n. The bow of a vessel, or form of the forebody, under the load water-line: opposed to run.
7. To put into a trance; withdraw consciousness or sensibility from; make insensible to present objects.
8. To put into an ecstasy; ravish with delight or wonder; enrapture.
9. n. In phonetics, the initial movement in producing a sound; the ‘attack’ or on-glide.
10. n. In music of a concerted sort, the point at which or the effect with which any one of the parts begins, especially when not at the beginning of a piece or passage.

Wiktionary

1. n. The action of entering, or going in.
2. n. The place of entering, as a gate or doorway.
3. n. The right to go in.
4. v. To delight and fill with wonder.
5. v. To put into a trance.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The act of entering or going into; ingress; ; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office.
2. n. Liberty, power, or permission to enter.
3. n. The passage, door, or gate, for entering.
4. n. The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation.
5. n. The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering.
6. n. The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.
7. n. The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.
8. v. To put into a trance; to make insensible to present objects.
9. v. To put into an ecstasy; to ravish with delight or wonder; to enrapture; to charm.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the act of entering
2. n. a movement into or inward
3. n. something that provides access (to get in or get out)
4. v. put into a trance
5. v. attract; cause to be enamored