enter upon

1. 1.

   take possession of

   “She entered upon the estate of her rich relatives”

   Synonymscome uponluck into

   Broaderget

Questions about enter upon

What does enter upon mean?

enter upon means "take possession of".

What is another word for enter upon?

Close synonyms include come upon, luck into. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is enter upon a common word?

enter upon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.