entry

Meaning

Noun

• The act of entering.
• Permission to enter.
• A doorway that provides a means of entering a building.
• The act of taking possession.
• The start of an insurance contract.
• A passageway between terraced houses that provides a means of entering a back garden or yard.
• A small room immediately inside the front door of a house or other building, often having an access to a stairway and leading on to other rooms
• A small group formed within a church, especially Episcopal, for simple dinner and fellowship, and to help facilitate new friendships
• An item in a list, such as an article in a dictionary or encyclopedia.
• A record made in a log, diary or anything similarly organized; a datum in a database.
• A term at any position in a matrix.
• The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure licence to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods.
• The point when a musician starts to play or sing; entrance.
• The introduction of new hounds into a pack.

Related

Similar words

• access, enter, entrance
• access, admission
• entrance, ingang, way in
• article, lemma, lexeme
• record
• element

Opposite words

• departure, exit, exiting,
• exit, way out

Origin

• From Old French entree (feminine past participle of the verb entrer, Modern French entrée). From Latin intrāre, present active infinitive of intrō.