Entranced

Definition: Entranced

Entranced

Adjective

1. Filled with wonder and delight.

Date "entranced" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Entranced

Synonyms: beguiled (adj), captivated (adj), charmed (adj), delighted (adj), enthralled (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Pleasure	Overjoyed, entranced, enchanted; enraptures; enravished; transported; fascinated, captivated.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Entranced

English words defined with "entranced": Transported. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Delighted to meet you, sir. Overjoyed, enraptured, entranced. Are we ready? (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory; writing credit: Roald Dahl)
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Domain	Title
Books	Entranced (reference) Entranced (Silhouette Special Edition, 774) (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Entwined & Entranced (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	China	Encouraged by a government eager for foreign capital and technology, and entranced by the prospect of 1.2 billion consumers, thousands of foreign firms have charged into the Chinese market. (references)
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"Entranced" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 60.67% of the time. "Entranced" is used about 89 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)	60.67%	54	46,184
Lexical Verb (past tense)	31.46%	28	65,706
Adjective (general or positive)	6.74%	6	143,867
Noun (proper)	1.12%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	89	N/A

Expressions using "entranced": become entranced ♦ entranced with joy. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "entranced": multi-entranced.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "entranced"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		入 (Entrancing, into). (various references)

Hebrew		מכושף (bewitched, enchanted, spellbound). (various references)

Indonesian		pemukauan (holds one entranced, something that stuns). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		陶然 (enraptured, intoxicated). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		とうぜ�" (a wax gourd, as a matter of course, east bank, eastern coast, eastward advance, enraptured, intoxicated, naturally). (various references)

Korean		황홀하게 하�". (various references)

Pig Latin		entranceday

Spanish		extasiarse (become entranced, rhapsodize). (various references)

Turkish		mest olmuş (ecstatic, enrapt, rapt, rapturous), kendinden geçmiş (beside oneself, distracted, distraught, ecstatic, enrapt, gone, intoxicated, rapt, rapturous, senseless, slaphappy, unconscious). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Entranced" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: entance, enterance, entranched, entrence, entrenced, intrance, intranced. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "entranced" (pronounced entra"nst)
4	-a" n s t	advanced, danced, enhanced, financed, glanced, refinanced, underfinanced.
3	-n s t	against, announced, balanced, bounced, commenced, condensed, convinced, countenanced, counterbalanced, denounced, dispensed, distanced, ensconced, evidenced, evinced, experienced, fenced, incensed, inconvenienced, inexperienced, influenced, licensed, minced, mispronounced, nuanced, pounced, pronounced, referenced, renounced, sensed, sentenced, silenced, trounced, unannounced, unbalanced, unbeknownst, unconvinced, unfenced, unlicensed, winced.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-n-n-r-t"
	-1 letter: cantered, crenated, decanter, entrance, recanted, tendance.
	-2 letters: candent, canteen, catered, centare, centner, centred, cerated, created, credent, crenate, enacted, reacted, recaned, reenact, tranced.
	-3 letters: anteed, ardent, cadent, canned, canner, canted, canter, careen, carnet, carted, cedarn, center, centra, centre, cerate, cetane, craned, crated, create, dancer, decane, decant, decare, decent, decern, derate, earned, ecarte, endear, ennead.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-n-n-r-t"
	+2 letters: contravened, contredanse, incinerated, transcended.
	+3 letters: androgenetic, concentrated, consternated, contredanses, disenchanter, inadvertence, inadvertency, interchained, interchanged, reincarnated, transcendent.
	+4 letters: confederating, confederation, containerised, containerized, counterdemand, countermanded, credentialing, deconcentrate, disenchanters, inadvertences, inconsiderate, indeterminacy, interpandemic, nonaccredited, transcendence, transcendency, unconsecrated, underreacting.
	+5 letters: concentratedly, confederations, coordinateness, counterchanged, counterdemands, counterstained, credentialling, decentralizing, deconcentrated, deconcentrates, deconsecrating, deconsecration, disinheritance, inadvertencies, recommendation, reconcentrated, recontaminated, transcendences, transcendental, transcendently, uncredentialed.
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