Usually means: To go inside a place.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. enter, enter-: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. enter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. enter, enter-: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. enter, enter-: Collins English Dictionary
  5. enter: Vocabulary.com
  6. Enter, enter, enter, enter-: Wordnik
  7. enter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Enter, enter, enter-: Wiktionary
  9. enter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. enter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. enter: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Enter-, enter, enter-: Dictionary.com
  13. enter: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. enter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Enter (Bin-Jip album), Enter (Cybotron album), Enter (Russian Circles album), Enter (Within Temptation album), Enter (disambiguation), Enter (magazine), Enter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Enter-, Enter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. enter, enter-: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. enter: Rhymezone
  19. Enter-, enter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. enter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. enter, enter-: MyWord.info
  22. enter, enter-: Free Dictionary
  23. enter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. enter, enter-: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. enter: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. enter-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. enter: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. enter: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. enter: CCI Computer
  2. enter: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  3. enter(o)-, enter-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ENTER: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. enter: Idioms

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Enter: Backgammon
  2. Enter: A Few Falconry Terms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See enterable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.
verb:  (figuratively) To go or come into (a state or profession).
verb:  (transitive) To type (something) into a computer; to input.
verb:  (transitive) To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.
verb:  (intransitive, law) To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.
verb:  (law, intransitive) To become effective; to come into effect.
verb:  (law) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.
verb:  (transitive, law) To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order
verb:  To make report of (a vessel or its cargo) at the custom house; to submit a statement of (imported goods), with the original invoices, to the proper customs officer for estimating the duties. See entry.
verb:  (transitive, US, dated, historical) To file, or register with the land office, the required particulars concerning (a quantity of public land) in order to entitle a person to a right of preemption.
verb:  To deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.).
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To initiate; to introduce favourably.
noun:  The "Enter" key on a computer keyboard.
noun:  A stroke of the Enter key.
noun:  (computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“the computer key”) [The "Enter" key on a computer keyboard.]
noun:  (computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“a stroke of the computer key”) [The "Enter" key on a computer keyboard.]

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