different between antechamber vs entrance

English

Etymology

ante- +? chamber

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ænti?t??e?mb?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ænti?t??e?mb?/

Noun

antechamber (plural antechambers)

1. A small room used as an entryway or reception area to a larger room.
   • 2005, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Arthur A. Levine Books (2005), 558,

     "This is merely the antechamber, the entrance hall," said Dumbledore after a moment or two.

Synonyms

• anteroom

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• entraunce

Etymology 1

From Middle French entrance (“entry”). Replaced native Middle English ingang (“entrance, admission”), from Old English ingang (“ingress, entry, entrance”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: ?n'tr?ns, IPA^(key): /??n.t??ns/

Noun

entrance (countable and uncountable, plural entrances)

1. (countable) The action of entering, or going in.

2. The act of taking possession, as of property, or of office.

3. (countable) The place of entering, as a gate or doorway.

4. (uncountable) The right to go in.

5. The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation.

   a difficult entrance into business

   • 1794, Henry Hunter, Sacred Biography

     in the entrance of the history of this great patriarch

6. The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering.

7. (nautical) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ham. Nav. Encyc to this entry?)

8. (nautical) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Totten to this entry?)

9. (music) When a musician starts playing or singing, entry.

Synonyms

• ingang

Antonyms

• exit

Translations

Etymology 2

From en- + trance (“daze”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n?t?æns/
• Rhymes: -æns

Verb

entrance (third-person singular simple present entrances, present participle entrancing, simple past and past participle entranced)

1. (transitive) To delight and fill with wonder.
   • 1996, Tab Murphy, Irene Mecchi, Bob Tzudiker, Noni White, and Jonathan Roberts, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (film)

     See the finest girl in France make an entrance to entrance...

2. (transitive) To put into a trance.

Translations

Anagrams

• centenar, enneract, rectenna

Middle French

Etymology

First attested in late Old French, from entrer +? -ance.

Noun

entrance f (plural entrances)

1. entrance (place where entry is possible)
2. permission to enter

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (entrance)
• “entrance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Verb

entrance

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of entrançar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of entrançar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of entrançar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of entrançar