n.
 (pl. entries)
      - an act or the action of entering.
 - a place of entrance. 
▸dialect a passage between buildings.
 - the right, means, or opportunity to enter. 
▸
(also entry into possession)
 Law  the action of taking up the legal right to property.
 ▸Bridge  a card providing an opportunity to transfer the lead to a particular hand.
 - an item entered in a list, account book, reference book, etc.
 - a person who enters a competition. 
▸the number of entrants in a competition.
 - the forward part of a ship's hull below the waterline, considered in terms of breadth or narrowness.
 
 
  Etymology
  ME: from OFr. entree, based on L. intrata, fem. past part. of intrare (see enter).