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Definition of enter : 1. To cause to go ( into), or to be received ( into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted; as, to enter a knife into a piece of wood, a wedge into a log; to enter a boy at college, a horse for a race, etc.
2. To come or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet, a country, a door, etc.; the river enters the sea.
3. To deposit for copyright the title or description of ( a book, picture, map, etc.); as, entered according to act of Congress.
4. To engage in; to become occupied with; as, to enter the legal profession, the book trade, etc.
5. To file or inscribe upon the records of the land office the required particulars concerning ( a quantity of public land) in order to entitle a person to a right pf preemption.
6. To get admission; to introduce one's self; to penetrate; to form or constitute a part; to become a partaker or participant; to share; to engage; -- usually with into; sometimes with on or upon; as, a ball enters into the body; water enters into a ship; he enters into the plan; to enter into a quarrel; a merchant enters into partnership with some one; to enter upon another's land; the boy enters on his tenth year; to enter upon a task; lead enters into the composition of pewter.
7. To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.
8. To go or come in; - often with in used pleonastically; also, to begin; to take the first steps.
9. To initiate; to introduce favorably.
10. To inscribe; to enroll; to record; as, to enter a name, or a date, in a book, or a book in a catalogue; to enter the particulars of a sale in an account, a manifest of a ship or of merchandise at the customhouse.
11. To make report of ( a vessel or her cargo) at the customhouse; to submit a statement of ( imported goods), with the original invoices, to the proper officer of the customs for estimating the duties. See Entry, 4.
12. To pass within the limits of; to attain; to begin; to commence upon; as, to enter one's teens, a new era, a new dispensation.
13. To penetrate mentally; to consider attentively; - with into.
14. To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order; as, to enter a writ, appearance, rule, or judgment.
15. To unite in; to join; to be admitted to; to become a member of; as, to enter an association, a college, an army.

Synonyms:

raise, fill in, disgrace, annotate, muster in, pull in, rush in, duel, reenter, insert, tape, immortalize, premise, touch, go into, put down, defer, get off, pronounce, grave, unload, enclose, perforate, take part, levy, subscribe, backdate, place down, complete, open, encrypt, immortalise, interject, demean, autograph, introduce, appear, ride, issue, come to, implant, face, undertake, remember, scratch, cypher, accede, throw in, work in, visualize, don, inaugurate, bring down, step in, commemorate, move in, sign on, blow in, memorialise, drop off, schedule, place, meet, influence, get into, drop, list, get to, show, institute, write down, butt in, puncture, repose, wear, enshrine, see, proclaim, set to, fill out, bring out, involve, inject, image, play, lead off, incline, burst in, come in, race, cipher, invade, lay, present, embark, get in on, assume, sneak in, set down, go far, push, put in, catalog, take, memorialize, render, estimate, run, caption, pierce, sign up, penetrate, acquaint, date, take down, visualise, interpose, intrude, infix, preface, take on, leave, calculate, initiate, throw back on, project, get down, fancy, bow, usher in, do, destroy, infiltrate, enlist, notify, tuck, pile in, bring forward, give in, fulfill, commence, encipher, code, innovate, stick in, slip in, go in, horn in, assent, envision, enter into, figure, declare, announce, reach, engage in, enrol, inform, venture, slate, precede, launch, recruit, gain, picture, set out, enroll, hold sway, sit in on, work out, contest, predispose, make it, move into, take part (in something), break, start, come out, forecast, count on, compute, begin, receive, set about, tangle with, reckon, submit, acquiesce, write in code, engrave, draw in, put on, ship, inclose, mold, post, get, get in, approach, break in, kick off, depart, degrade, take up, join in, discharge, represent, overtake, index, address, bring in, condition, motivate, read

attain, arrive, come, debark, land, accomplish

join, participate, share, partake, co-operate

log, note, inscribe, indicate, record, transcribe, register

access, input

Usage examples:

• But Djezzar was willing they should enter. - "The History of Napoleon Buonaparte", John Gibson Lockhart.
• A. I- I did- I did not enter it. - "The-Darrow-Enigma", Severy, Melvin Linwood.
• We are just about to enter Coblenz and I want you to remember it all your life. - "The Red Cross Girls with Pershing to Victory", Margaret Vandercook.