[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/entrance/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [E](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/e/) / entrance # entrance noun (an entrance, entrances); verb (entrance, entrances, entranced, entrancing — to delight) «entrance» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. An entrance is a door, gate or opening where you go into a place. [tree →](https://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://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrance/#m4) ### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrance/#x1) - The entrance to the cave was dark. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrance/#x2) - The entrance fee is five dollars for children. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrance/#x3) - The queen made a grand entrance. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrance/#x4) - The school entrance is on the other side. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrance/#x5) - The music entranced the audience. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrance/#x7) - The name glittered in gas-jets over the entrance. [tree →](https://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 Jewish tradition In the Torah it can mean a gateway or a border point, like the entrance to Hamath at the edge of the Promised Land. **Interpretation.** In Sefer Yetzirah the "modes of entrance" are the 231 pairings of the 22 Hebrew letters, read as the gates through which all things are made. ### Examples - So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, at the entrance to Hamath. (Torah NUM.13.21, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/entrance/#x1) - from mount Hor ye shall mark out a line unto the entrance to Hamath; and the goings out of the border shall be at Zedad; (Torah NUM.34.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/entrance/#x2) - These twenty-two letters, the foundations, He arranged as on a sphere, with two hundred and thirty-one modes of entrance. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/entrance/#x3) - So also made he for the entrance of the temple door-posts of olive-wood, within a frame four-square; (Prophets 1KI.6.33, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/entrance/#x4) - And for the entrance of the Sanctuary he made doors of olive-wood, the door-posts within the frame having five angles. (Prophets 1KI.6.31, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/entrance/#x5) - And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and there fell many wounded, even unto the entrance of the gate. (Prophets JDG.9.40, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/entrance/#x6) ### 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. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «entrance» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entrance/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«entrance» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/entrance.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «entrance» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/entrance/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«entrance» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/entrance.html) on Mova free.