- the act or an instance of entering; entrance
- a point or place for entering, such as a door, gate, etc
- the right or liberty of entering; admission; access
- (as modifier): an entry permit
- the act of recording an item, such as a commercial transaction, in a journal, account, register, etc
- an item recorded, as in a diary, dictionary, or account
- a person, horse, car, etc, entering a competition or contest; competitor
- the competitors entering a contest considered collectively: a good entry this year for the speed trials
- the action of an actor in going on stage or his or her manner of doing this
- the act of going upon another person's land with the intention of asserting the right to possession
- any point in a piece of music, esp a fugue, at which a performer commences or resumes playing or singing
- a card that enables one to transfer the lead from one's own hand to that of one's partner or to the dummy hand
- English dialect a passage between the backs of two rows of terraced houses
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en•try /ˈɛntri/USA pronunciation
n., pl. -tries.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- the act of entering;
entrance:[countable]the country's entry into the war. - [countable] a place of entrance, esp. an entrance hall.
- entrée;
access:[uncountable]She has entry to the highest people in government. - a statement, item, word, etc., entered or recorded in a book, register, list, or account:[countable]The entries in her diary described every day she spent on her trip.
- a person or thing entered in a contest or competition:[countable]a late entry into the race.
en•try
(en′trē),USA pronunciation n., pl. -tries.
- an act of entering;
entrance. - a place of ingress or entrance, esp. an entrance hall or vestibule.
- permission or right to enter;
access. - the act of entering or recording something in a book, register, list, etc.
- the statement, item, etc., so entered or recorded.
- a person or thing entered in a contest or competition.
- See vocabulary entry.
- Lawact of taking possession of lands or tenements by entering or setting foot on them.
- Businessthe giving of an account of a ship's cargo at a custom house, to obtain permission to land the goods.
- Accounting, Business[Accountableing.]the record of any transaction found in a bookkeeper's journal.
- Business[Bookkeeping.]
- See double entry.
- See single entry.
- Miningadit (def. 2).
- GamesAlso called en′try card′. [Bridge.]a winning card in one's hand or the hand of one's partner that gives the lead to one hand or the other.
- Latin intrāta (noun, nominal use of feminine of intrātus, past participle of intrāre to enter), equivalent. to intr- enter + -āta -ate1
- Old French entree
- Middle English entre(e) 1250–1300
- 5. record, note, memo, jotting.
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entry /ˈɛntrɪ/ n ( pl -tries)