entry

Permission to go into a place or take part in something.

• Entry is free for children.
• They refused him entry because he had no ticket.
• You need a passport for entry into the country.

How to use it: entry to something (Your ticket gives you entry to the museum.)

Similar words: admission, access

Common phrases: free entry, entry fee, refuse entry

A piece of information about one word or subject in a dictionary or similar book.

• Read the dictionary entry carefully.
• This encyclopedia has an entry about volcanoes.
• Some entries include pictures and maps.

How to use it: entry for something (The entry for this word includes three examples.)

Similar words: article

Common phrases: dictionary entry, encyclopedia entry, entry for something

Something you send to a competition to be judged, such as a picture or story.

• Your entry must arrive by Friday.
• The judges chose my photograph as the winning entry.
• We received fifty entries for the competition.

How to use it: entry for something (Her entry for the writing contest arrived yesterday.)

Similar words: submission

Common phrases: winning entry, competition entry, submit an entry

One piece of information recorded in a diary, list, or computer system.

• I wrote a short diary entry.
• Please delete the wrong entry from the list.
• The last three entries have no dates.

How to use it: entry in something (I found an old entry in her diary.)

Similar words: record

Common phrases: diary entry, database entry, log entry

A door or opening through which you can go into a building.

• The main entry is locked.
• Use the side entry after six.
• Both entries lead into the same hall.

Similar words: entrance, doorway

Opposites: exit

Common phrases: main entry, side entry, entry door

A small room just inside the main door of a building.

• Leave your shoes in the entry.
• The stairs rise from a narrow entry.
• She put a small table in the entry.

Similar words: entrance hall, hallway, foyer

Common phrases: small entry, entry hall, in the entry