entry

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
entry/ˈentri/

▶noun (pl. entries)

• 1 an act or the action of entering.

• 2 a place of entrance.

  ■ dialect a passage between buildings.

• 3 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.

• 4 an item entered in a list, account book, reference book, etc.

• 5 a person who enters a competition.

  ■ the number of entrants in a competition.

• 6 the forward part of a ship's hull below the waterline, considered in terms of breadth or narrowness.

– origin ME: from OFr. entree, based on L. intrata, fem. past part. of intrare (see enter).