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entrant
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Word definitions for entrant in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, "one who enters, a beginner" (of professions, etc.); from French entrant , present participle of entrer (see enter ). From 1838 with reference to one who enters a contest. As an adjective from 1630s.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 participant 2 newcomer
Usage examples of entrant.
En entrant dans la salle ou fumait la soupe aux choux, Catherine frissonna de nouveau.
Richmond, embrasserait la religion romaine, et, entrant dans les ordres, suivrait M.
He was still eyeing me with an air of appraisal, as though I were a prime entrant in the Silver Medalist Round at the Shropshire Fat Pigs Show.
He would, in short, have been an unsafe entrant to have backed in a beauty contest, even if the only other competitors had been Boris Karloff, King Kong and Oofy Prosser of the Drones.
It felt different from Primgranese Baubles, partly because this one carried no idents of previous ego-field entrants, and partly because it was different on the physiochemical level.
Sarvallo suddenly announced, and more than half the entrants immediately did just that.
Another trick to rattle the entrants, and my black-haired opponent almost fell for it.
Those entrants who put everything they had into attack-their efforts should have canceled each other out, but you said it killed them both.
They temporarily closed the Customs gate, leaving the entrants sitting, waiting, and reported by visiphone to Hanovich.
Gobred and Bohun reined about and faced their own knights these rode out of the lists, those who were not to take part in the encounters of the day seeking places in the stands after turning their chargers over to grooms, while those who were to participate formed again to ride once around the lists, for the double purpose of indicating to their opponents and the spectators the entrants for that day and of viewing the prizes offered by their opponents.
Bohun led his entrants about the lists as they paraded before the opening encounter, and once again he drew rein before the loge of Gobred and his eye rested upon the beautiful face of Guinalda for an instant before he addressed her sire.
Hereford riding, bareback bucking pony riding, team roping of the same sad-sack cow by six entrants, and pony racing for kids.
Allheart knights and more of the tournament entrants than the rest of the kingdom combined.
When A Clubbable Woman came out, I was a whizzkid sergeant, graduate entrant, potential high-flier.
He stopped in the center of the floor and swept his eyes across the line of entrants, his face set in its usual sour and disapproving scowl.