Entry Word: opening

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 a favorable combination of circumstances, time, and place <she saw an opening for her remarks and seized it> — see opportunity
2 a place in a surface allowing passage into or through a thing <an opening in the roof is letting rain drip inside> — see hole 1
3 an open space in a barrier (as a wall or hedge) <the rabbit found a little opening in the bushes and darted through> — see gap 1