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extrance

extrance noun: exit.

Noun

extrance (plural extrances)

  1. (rare) exit
    • Many mystery stories, about men murdered behind locked doors and windows, and murderers escaping without means of extrance and exit, have come true in the course of the extraordinary events at Cranston on the coast of Yorkshire, where Colonel Druce was found stabbed from behind by a dagger that has...1926, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Oracle of the Dog”, in The Incredulity of Father Brown, London; Toronto; Melbourne; Sydney: Cassell and Company Ltd, page 72
    • The wire is threaded on a long suitably curved needle, extrance is made through the vestibule of the mouth medially to the zygoma and out on the face at an appropriate point.1939, Texas Dental Journal, volume 57, page 47

Forms of extrance

pluralextrances

Origin of extrance

From exit, modelled after entrance.

Questions about extrance

What does extrance mean?
Extrance means exit.
What part of speech is extrance?
Extrance is a noun.
What is the plural of extrance?
The plural of extrance is extrances.

Words near extrance in the dictionary

  1. extranasal
  2. extranasopharyngeal
  3. extranational
  4. extranationally
  5. extranatural
  6. extrance
  7. extrances
  8. extranean
  9. extraneans
  10. extraneities
  11. extraneity

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