entrances

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of entrance.

   Guards were posted at all the entrances to the palace.

   The museum's side entrances open only on weekdays.

   Note

   A regular plural in -s, and it belongs only to the countable uses of the noun. It covers gates and doorways, separate acts of entering, and beginnings made more than once. The uncountable "right to go in" takes no plural. Stress falls on the first syllable, and that is what separates it from the verb meaning "enchants", which is a different word with its own origin and only happens to share the spelling.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present indicative of entrance.

   The magician entrances the audience with every trick.

   Her voice entrances listeners from the very first note.

   Note

   The present-tense form of a transitive verb, so it always takes an object: a voice entrances listeners, a performer entrances a crowd. Most often it means delights and fills with wonder, but the literal meaning, puts into a trance, sits right beside it. Say it with stress on the second syllable. With the stress on the first it turns into the plural noun.

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