Definitions for entry

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entry en·try

Spelling: [en-tree]

IPA: /ˈɛn tri/

Entry is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in entry (enrty).

Definitions for entry

noun

1. an act of entering; entrance.
2. a place of ingress or entrance, especially an entrance hall or vestibule.
3. permission or right to enter; access.
4. the act of entering or recording something in a book, register, list, etc.
5. the statement, item, etc., so entered or recorded.
6. a person or thing entered in a contest or competition.
7. vocabulary entry.
8. Law. act of taking possession of lands or tenements by entering or setting foot on them.
9. the giving of an account of a ship's cargo at a custom house, to obtain permission to land the goods.
10. Accounting. the record of any transaction found in a bookkeeper's journal.
11. Bookkeeping. double entry. single entry.
12. Mining. adit (def 2).
13. Also called entry 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.

Origin of entry

1250-1300; Middle English entre(e) Old French entree Latin intrāta (noun use of feminine of intrātus, past participle of intrāre to enter), equivalent to intr- enter

Examples for entry

Before Fidel, when segregation was in full swing, the Cuban apartheid meant many clubs and parks still refused black Cubans entry.

The refugee from Eastern Europe had made his first entry into international law books.

It was now three years since Rico made his first entry into Peschiera.

These “free” games display ads, often in obnoxious places, in lieu of the entry fee.

His entry into the business of film making was as designer and writer of title cards for silent films.

Lyddy Ann she walked through the entry an' into the fore-room, an' he shet the door.

Sergeant Wilde was met on his entry into the town by almost the whole population.

She stationed herself in the entry, to lose no step in his familiar progress.

Mortimer exposed the pasteboard he had acquired on his entry to the stand.

The sweepstakes begins on December 9th, 2014 at 8:00 AM EST and ends on January 31st, 2015 at 11:59 EST (the "entry Period").