entrée

See also Entrée, entree, and entre

English

Alternative forms

• entree

Etymology

From French entrée.

Noun

Wikipedia entrée (plural entrées)

1. (chiefly US, Canada) the main course or main dish of a meal
   • 2007, Sue Fox, Etiquette for Dummies (published in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States), page 180:

     Entree: The main course is normally beef, chicken, duck, or lamb, and you eat these foods with a dinner knife and dinner fork.

2. (chiefly UK, French Canada, Australia, New Zealand) (historical, US, Canada) a smaller dish served before the main course of a meal.
   • 1887, Estelle Woods Wilcox, Practical housekeeping: A careful compilation of tried and approved recipes (published in Dayton, Ohio, United States), page 457:

     ENTREES AND ENTREMETS. Usually, outside of France, entrees are side or corner dishes. ... In conclusion I again remark, entrees can be made from almost anything, the difference being, they are highly cooked and seasoned. Remember nothing large is served as an entree. There are game entrees, meat entrees, fish entrees, fowl entrees, etc.

3. The act of entering somewhere, or permission to enter; admittance
   • 1796, John Owen, Owen's travels into different parts of Europe, in the years 1791 and 1792, page 307:

     It was not by the aid of mules and porters, sedans and sledges, that the hero of Carthage made his entrée into Italy.

   • 2008, Lyn Hamilton, The Chinese Alchemist, page 253:

     Burton conveniently afforded him entree into the world of art and those who buy it.

Synonyms

• (main dish of a meal): main course, main
• (dish served before main course): appetiser, appetizer, hors d’oeuvre, starter
• (permission to enter): access, admission, admittance, entry

Related terms

• entry

Translations

dish served before the main course of a meal

• Finnish: alkupala (fi)
• French: entrée (fr) f
• Georgian: პირველი კურსი (ka) (pirveli kursi)
• Greek: ορεκτικό (el) (orektikó) n
• Japanese: アントレ (ja) (antore)

• Russian: закуска (ru) (zakúska) f, (uncommon) антре (ru) (antrɛ́) n, первое блюдо (ru) (pérvoje bljúdo) n
• Serbo-Croatian: predjelo (sh) n
• Spanish: entremés (es) m
• Swedish: förrätt (sv) c, entré (sv) c, entrérätt (sv) c

main dish — see main course

act of entering

• Finnish: sisääntulo (fi)
• French: entrée (fr) f
• German: Zutritt (de) m

• Russian: вход (ru) (vxod) m, вхождение (ru) (vxoždénije) n
• Swedish: entré (sv) c, inträde (sv) n, ankomst (sv) c, intåg (sv) n

See also

• appetizer
• starter

External links

• “Entrée” article on The Language of Food blog

Anagrams

• eterne
• teener

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Pronunciation

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Noun

entrée f (plural entrées)

1. entry, act of entering
2. entrance, way in
3. starter (of a meal)
4. headword, entry (in a dictionary, encyclopedia)

Related terms

• entrer
• rentrée

Verb

entrée f

1. feminine past participle of entrer

Anagrams

• rentée