enter
to come or go into
How often you will meet it
Rank 785 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 23,469 times across 175,112 chapters — 0.011% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
verb
- to come or go into also: come in, get into, get in, go into, go in, move into the boat entered an area of shallow marshes
- become a participant; be involved in also: participate enter a raceenter an agreement
- register formally as a participant or member also: enroll, inscribe, enrol, recruit The party recruited many new members
- be or play a part of or in also: figure Elections figure prominently in every government programHow do the elections figure in the current pattern of internal politics?
- make a record of; set down in permanent form also: record, put down
- come on stage
enter in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Various pirates enter and shoot the old man.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 · Various · Chapter 1
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Let us enter that silence ere the belchings re-begin.
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
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Such an idea could not enter in their minds.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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Mary and the Apostles enter them at will, although the doors are bolted.
The Dream · Émile Zola · Chapter 1
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It did not enter his mind that anything he had done could alter his standing with the "fellows."
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1