ingress

Other forms of ingress

plural

ingresses·

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.

Questions about ingress

What does ingress mean?

ingress means "(astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ingress?

ingress has 2 syllables: in-gress. The stress falls on "in".

What is another word for ingress?

Close synonyms include immersion, entrance, entering, entry, incoming. 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.

What is the opposite of ingress?

The recorded antonyms are egress.

Is ingress a common word?

ingress 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.