Definitions for ingresses

ingresses in·gress

Spelling: [in-gres]
IPA: /ˈɪn grɛs/

Ingresses is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 226 anagrams from letters in ingresses (eeginrsss).

Definitions for ingresses

noun

  1. the act of going in or entering.
  2. the right to enter.
  3. a means or place of entering; entryway.
  4. Astronomy. immersion (def 5).

Origin of ingresses

1400-50; late Middle English Latin ingressus a going in, commencing, equivalent to ingred-, stem of ingredī to go or step into, commence (see in-2, Examples for ingresses

Any other mode of ingress was impossible for any beast of burden.

Yet the workman must have entered by some ingress—if only Dick could discover it!

They told him they could give him ingress at a point in the long walls leading to Lechaeum.

There were for a few days much hurry and bustle, both of egress and of ingress.

People go too often now-a-days to make their ingress or egress of consequence.

He looks about him, and discovers that is the door of egress, not of ingress.

Neither are there any not equally subject to the ingress and egress of mortality.

But Renwick was not sure that there was no other means of ingress.

It was as though an invisible barrier had been raised to prevent his ingress.

The waters of the great deep have ingress and egress to the soul.

Word Value for ingresses
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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