enter
/ˈɛntɚ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.81 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.
Transitive verb
verb
To go or come into (a state or profession).
Example Sentences
- "You should knock before you enter, unless you want to see me naked."
- "[…]you can fynde in youre heartes to assaulte her with rebellion, or in any wise [ways] suffer any one eyvil motion to enter into your thoughtes against her?"
- "Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God."
- "In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.[…]Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion."
- "We determined that the car driver’s transportation of multiple teen passengers, limited driving experience, and likely impairment from effects of cannabis at the time of the crash adversely affected her judgment of the danger of entering the intersection in front of the approaching combination vehicle."
- "to enter a knife into a piece of wood"
Etymology
From Middle English entren, from Old French entrer, from Latin intrō (“enter”, verb), from intrā (“inside”). Has been spelled as "enter" for several centuries even in the United Kingdom, although British English and the English of many Commonwealth Countries (e.g. Australia, Canada) retain the "re" ending for many words such as centre, fibre, spectre, theatre, calibre, sombre, lustre, and litre.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *terh₂-, entren, entrer, intrō
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɛntɚ/
- British English: /ˈɛntə(ɹ)/
Usage
- Intransitive verb
- Transitive verb
- American usage
- Dated
- Obsolete
- Formal
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Computing.
Inflected Forms
enters (present, singular)
entering (participle, present)
entered (participle, past)
entered (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
entered (first person, past)
entred (archaic, first person)
enterest (archaic, present)
entrest (archaic, present)
entered (past, second person)
enteredst (archaic, past)