entry

American  

[en-tree] / ˈɛn tri /

noun

• entries
  plural

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.

   Synonyms:

   jotting, memo, note, record

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.

    1. double entry.

    2. single entry.

12. Mining. adit.

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.

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entry British  

/ ˈɛntrɪ /

noun

1. the act or an instance of entering; entrance

2. a point or place for entering, such as a door, gate, etc

3. 1. the right or liberty of entering; admission; access

   2. ( as modifier )

      an entry permit

4. the act of recording an item, such as a commercial transaction, in a journal, account, register, etc

5. an item recorded, as in a diary, dictionary, or account

6. 1. a person, horse, car, etc, entering a competition or contest; competitor

   2. ( as modifier )

      an entry fee

7. the competitors entering a contest considered collectively

   a good entry this year for the speed trials

8. the people admitted at one time to a school, college, or course of study, etc, considered collectively; intake

9. the action of an actor in going on stage or his manner of doing this

10. criminal law the act of unlawfully going onto the premises of another with the intention of committing a crime

11. property law the act of going upon another person's land with the intention of asserting the right to possession

12. any point in a piece of music, esp a fugue, at which a performer commences or resumes playing or singing

13. cards 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

14. dialect a passage between the backs of two rows of terraced houses

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Usage

What is an entry? An entry is a place where you enter, especially a hall, passage, or vestibule, as in The entry to the movie theater was full of people excited to see the new superhero movie. An entry is also permission to enter something, as in Entry to the office building was limited to staff only. When you enter a contest, that act is an entry, too, as in Mack’s entry for the writing contest was a short story about angry robots. So is what you submit for the contest or another type of listing, like a dictionary entry. Example: I’ll be waiting at the entry point for your arrival.

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• nonentry
  noun
• preentry
  noun

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• entries
  plural

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Etymology

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 + -āta -ate ¹

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Explanation

Entry has loads of meanings, most of them concerning going inside someplace and the way you happen to get inside. It can also refer to written records (as in a diary or ledger) or a submission to a contest. When you go into the room, you make an entry. The door you go through is also an entry. If you write in your diary about all this, you make an entry in your diary. If you submit your diary page to the "Awesome Writer" writing contest, your submission is also called an entry. And, finally, if you keep a spreadsheet for all your writing contest submissions, don't forget to make an entry (for this entry about an entry via an entry).

Example Sentences

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entry entries

The competitive threat posed by SpaceX discouraged the three major national carriers but buying into Boost Mobile could represent a back-door entry for Musk.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

The process culminated in 2020 with the full liberalization of passenger rail transport, followed by the entry of two private operating companies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

The order exempts stops at ports of entry, checkpoints and other functional equivalents of the border.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

Cummins' entry into that unwanted club has been delayed by his bowlers' streetwise nature and ability to sense a moment.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

My last entry was: “Not Mrs. Zamick, either.”

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein

She also made electronic transfers into accounts she controlled and falsified financial entries in an effort to hide her tracks, according to prosecutors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

Its Facebook page features eight entries since the Aug. 18 primary, the last one on Sept. 30.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Organisers hope to entice more participants with wildcard entries to events like the 2027 World Road Running Championships in China.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

But through journal entries from that time, narrated in the film by Diane Lane, the audience can piece together where the fear and the pride meet.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

The only way to match a fingerprint was to get lucky—and since there were almost a million entries in Bertillon’s files, a detective would have to get really lucky.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

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