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say it: AHN-tray
entree is a noun meaning "the principal dish of a meal". It carries 4 recorded senses.
something that provides access (to get in or get out)
“they waited at the entrance to the garden”
“beggars waited just outside the entryway to the cathedral”
an entrance, especially a theatrical entrance onto a stage or as if onto a stage
“she made a graceful entree into the ballroom”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for entree come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.