ENTREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does entree mean? 

• ENTREE (noun)
  The noun ENTREE has 4 senses:

1. the principal dish of a meal
2. the right to enter
3. something that provides access (to get in or get out)
4. the act of entering

  Familiarity information: ENTREE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENTREE (noun)

Meaning:

The principal dish of a meal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

entree; main course

Hypernyms ("entree" is a kind of...):

course (part of a meal served at one time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "entree"):

plate (a main course served on a plate)

Meaning:

The right to enter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

admittance; access; entree; accession

Hypernyms ("entree" is a kind of...):

right (an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "entree"):

door (anything providing a means of access (or escape))

Meaning:

Something that provides access (to get in or get out)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

entrance; entranceway; entryway; entree; entry

Context examples:

they waited at the entrance to the garden / beggars waited just outside the entryway to the cathedral

Hypernyms ("entree" is a kind of...):

access; approach (a way of entering or leaving)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "entree"):

arch; archway (a passageway under a curved masonry construction)

vomitory (an entrance to an amphitheater or stadium)

stage door (an entrance to the backstage area of theater; used by performers and other theater personnel)

servant's entrance; service door; service entrance (an entrance intended for the use of servants or for delivery of goods and removal of refuse)

porte-cochere (a carriage entrance passing through a building to an enclosed courtyard)

portal (a grand and imposing entrance (often extended metaphorically))

pithead (the entrance to a coal mine)

hatchway; opening; scuttle (an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship)

gateway (an entrance that can be closed by a gate)

door; doorway; room access; threshold (the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close)

Meaning:

The act of entering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

she made a graceful entree into the ballroom

Hypernyms ("entree" is a kind of...):

entering; entrance; entry; incoming; ingress (the act of entering)