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noun
- a dish served as the main course of a meal.
- Older Use. a dish served at dinner between the principal courses.
- the privilege of entering; access.
- a means of obtaining entry: His friendship with an actor’s son was his entrée into the theatrical world.
- the act of entering; entrance.
noun
- a dish served before a main course
- mainly US the main course of a meal
- the power or right of entry
1724, “opening piece of an opera or ballet,” from French entrée, from Old French entree (see entry). Cookery sense is from 1759; originally the dish which was introductory to the main course. The word had been borrowed in Middle English as entre “act of entering.”