different between entrance vs entree

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

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

entree (plural entrees)

1. Alternative form of entrée

Anagrams

• eterne, rentee, retene, teener

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch entree, from Middle French entrée, from Old French entree.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?tre?/
• Hyphenation: en?tree
• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

entree f (plural entrees, diminutive entreetje n)

1. the entrance to a house, i.e. the room beyond the front door, from which doors to other rooms will typically open; or the entry or entrance of any other type of building or premise.

   Synonyms: hal, ingang, vestibule

2. the right of entry to a building or land where there is no general right of entrance.

   Synonym: toegang

3. the price of entry

   Synonym: toegangsprijs

4. (dining) (formerly) a savoury served after the fish course and before the main course; (now usually) the starter or the main course itself.

   Synonyms: amuse, voorgerecht, voorspijs

Derived terms

• entreebewijs

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: entre

Middle French

Etymology

Old French entree, antree.

Noun

entree f (plural entrees)

1. entrance

Descendants

• French: entrée