7 entrée ( noun) - [ countable ] the main dish of a meal, or a dish
served before the main course – used in restaurants or on formal occasions :
an entrée of roast duck
I was getting fries with my entrée"
"I didn't have any alcohol, no entree, just a steak"
"Dinner was only the entrée to the main event though."
They have to make an appetizer, entree, and dessert.
2 [ uncountable and countable ] formal the right or freedom to enter a
place or to join a social group
entrée to/into
My family name gave me an entrée into upper class Boston society.