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ingresses

ingresses is the plural of ingress.

Meaning of ingress

Noun

ingress (countable and uncountable, plural ingresses)

  1. The act of entering.
    • Looking about him while in this state of suspense, Charles Darnay observed that the gate was held by a mixed guard of soldiers and patriots, the latter far outnumbering the former; and that while ingress into the city for peasants’ carts bringing in supplies, and for similar traffic and...1859, Charles Dickens, “In Secret”, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book III (The Track of a Storm), page 168
    Antonyms:
    egress
  2. A permission to enter.
    • All ingress was prohibited.
  3. A door or other means of entering.
    Antonyms:
    egress
  4. The entrance of the Moon into the shadow of the Earth in eclipses, or the Sun's entrance into a sign, etc.

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Questions about ingresses

What is ingresses the plural of?
Ingresses is the plural of ingress.

Words near ingresses in the dictionary

  1. ingredients
  2. Ingresian
  3. ingress
  4. ingress, egress, and regress
  5. ingressed
  6. ingresses
  7. ingressing
  8. ingression
  9. ingressions
  10. ingressive
  11. ingressively

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