antre

See also: antré and antre-

English

Etymology

From Middle French, from Latin antrum, from Ancient Greek ἄντρον (ántron).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈæn.tə(ɹ)/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈæn.tɚ/, [ˈæn.(ɾ)ɚ]

Noun

antre (plural antres)

  1. (archaic) Cavern; cave.
    • 1818, John Keats, Endymion, Book II,
      Aye, millions sparkled on a vein of gold, / Along whose track the prince quick footsteps told, / With all its lines abrupt and angular: / Out-shooting sometimes, like a meteor-star, / Through a vast antre;
    • 1879, George Meredith, The Egoist, Chapter XXIII: Treats of the Union of Temper and Policy,
      Seeing him as she did, she turned from him and shunned his house as the antre of an ogre.
    • 1888, Richard Francis Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 16,
      Hereat quoth he to himself, "If I enter this antre, haply shall I lose myself, and perish of hunger and thirst!"

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French

Etymology

Latin antrum, from Ancient Greek ἄντρον (ántron).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑ̃tʁ/
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Noun

antre m (plural antres)

  1. cave
  2. den, lair
  3. (anatomy) antrum

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Mirandese

Etymology

From Latin inter.

Preposition

antre

  1. between
  2. among

Portuguese

Preposition

antre

  1. Archaic form of entre.

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

antre m (Cyrillic spelling антре)

  1. entrée
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