"entren" meaning in Middle English

See entren in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˈɛntrən/
Etymology: Borrowed from Anglo-Norman entrer, from Latin intrāre; compare entre (“entry”). Etymology templates: {{bor+|enm|xno|entrer}} Borrowed from Anglo-Norman entrer, {{der|enm|la|intro|intrāre}} Latin intrāre Head templates: {{head|enm|verb|head=}} entren, {{enm-verb|stem=entr}} entren (third-person singular simple present entreth, present participle entrende, entrynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle entred) Inflection templates: {{enm-conj-wk|entr}} Forms: entreth [present, singular, third-person], entrende [participle, present], entrynge [participle, present], entred [first-person, indicative, participle, past, singular, third-person], no-table-tags [table-tags], entren [infinitive], to entren [infinitive], entre [infinitive], entre [first-person, present, singular], entred [first-person, past, singular], entrest [present, second-person, singular], entredest [past, second-person, singular], entreth [present, singular, third-person], entred [past, singular, third-person], entre [present, singular, subjunctive], entred [past, singular, subjunctive], entre [imperative, present, singular], - [imperative, past, singular], entren [plural, present], entre [plural, present], entreden [past, plural], entrede [past, plural], entreth [imperative, plural, present], entre [imperative, plural, present], - [imperative, past, plural], entrynge [participle, present], entrende [participle, present], entred [participle, past], yentred [participle, past], enter [alternative], entir [alternative], entre [alternative], en-tre [alternative], entryn [alternative], entri [alternative, Southern]
  1. To enter (to move into an enclosed or demarcated space):
    Sense id: en-entren-enm-verb-DPedm13r
  2. To enter (to move into an enclosed or demarcated space):
    To suffuse into a substance.
    Sense id: en-entren-enm-verb-4eVLHrhV
  3. To enter (to move into an enclosed or demarcated space):
    (property law) To claim or obtain ownership (often by entry)
    Sense id: en-entren-enm-verb-wsFENWIK Categories (other): Property law Topics: law, property
  4. To enter into an endeavour or life situation:
    To assume a position or membership.
    Sense id: en-entren-enm-verb-x9flQG2w
  5. To enter into an endeavour or life situation:
    To engage or put in battle.
    Sense id: en-entren-enm-verb-59Cxju75
  6. To enter into an endeavour or life situation:
    (rare) To have sexual intercourse with.
    Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-entren-enm-verb-YpBftUsI Categories (other): Sex Disambiguation of Sex: 0 0 0 0 0 100 0 0 0
  7. To commence or begin (a period of time)
    Sense id: en-entren-enm-verb-DLohZsBd Categories (other): Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries, Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Time, War Disambiguation of Pages with 5 entries: 7 7 16 11 2 7 7 7 2 2 2 13 2 1 11 2 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 8 8 11 13 1 7 7 7 1 1 1 16 1 1 13 1 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 15 15 15 6 6 6 24 7 5 Disambiguation of Time: 0 0 7 0 0 0 93 0 0 Disambiguation of War: 6 6 6 16 16 16 31 4 0
  8. To enter (record in a list)
    Sense id: en-entren-enm-verb-WFTYUdum
  9. (rare) To nominate or select. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-entren-enm-verb-ZMqtEEKU
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Government Disambiguation of Government: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Alternative forms

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        "infinitive"
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    {
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      "form": "entre",
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      "tags": [
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        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entred",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "subjunctive"
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    },
    {
      "form": "entre",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "entren",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entre",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entreden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "tags": [
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        "plural"
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        "present"
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      "source": "conjugation",
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        "past",
        "plural"
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    },
    {
      "form": "entrynge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entrende",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "entred",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yentred",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enter",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entir",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entre",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "en-tre",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entryn",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "entri",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Southern"
      ]
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    },
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      "args": {
        "stem": "entr"
      },
      "expansion": "entren (third-person singular simple present entreth, present participle entrende, entrynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle entred)",
      "name": "enm-verb"
    }
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      "args": {
        "1": "entr"
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      "name": "enm-conj-wk"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              103,
              111
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              101,
              107
            ]
          ],
          "english": "But while he said these things, a cloud formed and overshadowed them, and they became afraid as they walked into the cloud.",
          "ref": "c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Luke 9:34, folio 32, verso; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:",
          "text": "but while he ſpak þeſe þĩgis .· a cloude was maad / ⁊ ouerſchadewide hẽ / and þeı dꝛedden .· whãne þeı entriden ın to þe cloude",
          "translation": "But while he said these things, a cloud formed and overshadowed them, and they became afraid as they walked into the cloud.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To enter (to move into an enclosed or demarcated space)"
      ],
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          "enter",
          "enter"
        ],
        [
          "move",
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        ],
        [
          "into",
          "into#English"
        ],
        [
          "enclose",
          "enclose#English"
        ],
        [
          "demarcate",
          "demarcate#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "To enter (to move into an enclosed or demarcated space):"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To enter (to move into an enclosed or demarcated space):",
        "To suffuse into a substance."
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      "id": "en-entren-enm-verb-4eVLHrhV",
      "links": [
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          "enter"
        ],
        [
          "move",
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        ],
        [
          "into",
          "into#English"
        ],
        [
          "enclose",
          "enclose#English"
        ],
        [
          "demarcate",
          "demarcate#English"
        ],
        [
          "suffuse",
          "suffuse"
        ],
        [
          "substance",
          "substance"
        ]
      ]
    },
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          "name": "Property law",
          "orig": "enm:Property law",
          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To enter (to move into an enclosed or demarcated space):",
        "To claim or obtain ownership (often by entry)"
      ],
      "id": "en-entren-enm-verb-wsFENWIK",
      "links": [
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          "enter",
          "enter"
        ],
        [
          "move",
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        ],
        [
          "into",
          "into#English"
        ],
        [
          "enclose",
          "enclose#English"
        ],
        [
          "demarcate",
          "demarcate#English"
        ],
        [
          "property law",
          "property law"
        ],
        [
          "claim",
          "claim"
        ],
        [
          "obtain",
          "obtain"
        ],
        [
          "ownership",
          "ownership"
        ],
        [
          "entry",
          "entry#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "To enter (to move into an enclosed or demarcated space):",
        "(property law) To claim or obtain ownership (often by entry)"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law",
        "property"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To enter into an endeavour or life situation:",
        "To assume a position or membership."
      ],
      "id": "en-entren-enm-verb-x9flQG2w",
      "links": [
        [
          "enter into",
          "enter into"
        ],
        [
          "endeavour",
          "endeavour"
        ],
        [
          "life",
          "life"
        ],
        [
          "situation",
          "situation"
        ],
        [
          "assume",
          "assume"
        ],
        [
          "position",
          "position"
        ],
        [
          "membership",
          "membership"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
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        "To enter into an endeavour or life situation:",
        "To engage or put in battle."
      ],
      "id": "en-entren-enm-verb-59Cxju75",
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        [
          "enter into",
          "enter into"
        ],
        [
          "endeavour",
          "endeavour"
        ],
        [
          "life",
          "life"
        ],
        [
          "situation",
          "situation"
        ],
        [
          "engage",
          "engage"
        ],
        [
          "put",
          "put"
        ],
        [
          "battle",
          "battle"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
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          "name": "Sex",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To enter into an endeavour or life situation:",
        "To have sexual intercourse with."
      ],
      "id": "en-entren-enm-verb-YpBftUsI",
      "links": [
        [
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        ],
        [
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        ],
        [
          "life",
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        ],
        [
          "situation",
          "situation"
        ],
        [
          "sexual",
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        [
          "intercourse",
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        ],
        [
          "with",
          "with"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "To enter into an endeavour or life situation:",
        "(rare) To have sexual intercourse with."
      ],
      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "7 7 16 11 2 7 7 7 2 2 2 13 2 1 11 2",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 5 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "8 8 11 13 1 7 7 7 1 1 1 16 1 1 13 1",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "15 15 15 6 6 6 24 7 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
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          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "enm",
          "name": "Time",
          "orig": "enm:Time",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
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          "kind": "other",
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          "name": "War",
          "orig": "enm:War",
          "parents": [],
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To commence or begin (a period of time)"
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "commence",
          "commence"
        ],
        [
          "begin",
          "begin"
        ],
        [
          "period",
          "period#English"
        ],
        [
          "time",
          "time#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To enter (record in a list)"
      ],
      "id": "en-entren-enm-verb-WFTYUdum",
      "links": [
        [
          "enter",
          "enter"
        ],
        [
          "record",
          "record#English"
        ],
        [
          "list",
          "list#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
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      "glosses": [
        "To nominate or select."
      ],
      "id": "en-entren-enm-verb-ZMqtEEKU",
      "links": [
        [
          "nominate",
          "nominate"
        ],
        [
          "select",
          "select"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) To nominate or select."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɛntrən/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "entren"
}
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    "Middle English terms derived from Latin",
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    "Middle English weak verbs",
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      "name": "der"
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entrende",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "entrynge",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entred",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "indicative",
        "participle",
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enm-conj-wk",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entren",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "to entren",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entre",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entre",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entred",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entrest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entredest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entreth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entred",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entre",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entred",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entre",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entren",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entre",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entreden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entrede",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entreth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entre",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entrynge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entrende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entred",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yentred",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enter",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entir",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entre",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "en-tre",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entryn",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "entri",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Southern"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "enm",
        "2": "verb",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "entren",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "stem": "entr"
      },
      "expansion": "entren (third-person singular simple present entreth, present participle entrende, entrynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle entred)",
      "name": "enm-verb"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "entr"
      },
      "name": "enm-conj-wk"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              103,
              111
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              101,
              107
            ]
          ],
          "english": "But while he said these things, a cloud formed and overshadowed them, and they became afraid as they walked into the cloud.",
          "ref": "c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Luke 9:34, folio 32, verso; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:",
          "text": "but while he ſpak þeſe þĩgis .· a cloude was maad / ⁊ ouerſchadewide hẽ / and þeı dꝛedden .· whãne þeı entriden ın to þe cloude",
          "translation": "But while he said these things, a cloud formed and overshadowed them, and they became afraid as they walked into the cloud.",
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        }
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        "To enter (to move into an enclosed or demarcated space)"
      ],
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        [
          "enter",
          "enter"
        ],
        [
          "move",
          "move#English"
        ],
        [
          "into",
          "into#English"
        ],
        [
          "enclose",
          "enclose#English"
        ],
        [
          "demarcate",
          "demarcate#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "To enter (to move into an enclosed or demarcated space):"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To enter (to move into an enclosed or demarcated space):",
        "To suffuse into a substance."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "enter",
          "enter"
        ],
        [
          "move",
          "move#English"
        ],
        [
          "into",
          "into#English"
        ],
        [
          "enclose",
          "enclose#English"
        ],
        [
          "demarcate",
          "demarcate#English"
        ],
        [
          "suffuse",
          "suffuse"
        ],
        [
          "substance",
          "substance"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "enm:Property law"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To enter (to move into an enclosed or demarcated space):",
        "To claim or obtain ownership (often by entry)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "enter",
          "enter"
        ],
        [
          "move",
          "move#English"
        ],
        [
          "into",
          "into#English"
        ],
        [
          "enclose",
          "enclose#English"
        ],
        [
          "demarcate",
          "demarcate#English"
        ],
        [
          "property law",
          "property law"
        ],
        [
          "claim",
          "claim"
        ],
        [
          "obtain",
          "obtain"
        ],
        [
          "ownership",
          "ownership"
        ],
        [
          "entry",
          "entry#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "To enter (to move into an enclosed or demarcated space):",
        "(property law) To claim or obtain ownership (often by entry)"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law",
        "property"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To enter into an endeavour or life situation:",
        "To assume a position or membership."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "enter into",
          "enter into"
        ],
        [
          "endeavour",
          "endeavour"
        ],
        [
          "life",
          "life"
        ],
        [
          "situation",
          "situation"
        ],
        [
          "assume",
          "assume"
        ],
        [
          "position",
          "position"
        ],
        [
          "membership",
          "membership"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To enter into an endeavour or life situation:",
        "To engage or put in battle."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "enter into",
          "enter into"
        ],
        [
          "endeavour",
          "endeavour"
        ],
        [
          "life",
          "life"
        ],
        [
          "situation",
          "situation"
        ],
        [
          "engage",
          "engage"
        ],
        [
          "put",
          "put"
        ],
        [
          "battle",
          "battle"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To enter into an endeavour or life situation:",
        "To have sexual intercourse with."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "enter into",
          "enter into"
        ],
        [
          "endeavour",
          "endeavour"
        ],
        [
          "life",
          "life"
        ],
        [
          "situation",
          "situation"
        ],
        [
          "sexual",
          "sexual"
        ],
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          "intercourse",
          "intercourse"
        ],
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          "with",
          "with"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "To enter into an endeavour or life situation:",
        "(rare) To have sexual intercourse with."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To commence or begin (a period of time)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "commence",
          "commence"
        ],
        [
          "begin",
          "begin"
        ],
        [
          "period",
          "period#English"
        ],
        [
          "time",
          "time#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To enter (record in a list)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "enter",
          "enter"
        ],
        [
          "record",
          "record#English"
        ],
        [
          "list",
          "list#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To nominate or select."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nominate",
          "nominate"
        ],
        [
          "select",
          "select"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) To nominate or select."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɛntrən/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "entren"
}

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