antre
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French, from Latin antrum, from Ancient Greek ἄντρον (ántron).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
antre (plural antres)
- (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!"
- 1818, John Keats, Endymion, Book II,
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Latin antrum, from Ancient Greek ἄντρον (ántron).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
antre m (plural antres)
Further reading[edit]
- “antre” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams[edit]
Mirandese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Preposition[edit]
antre
Portuguese[edit]
Preposition[edit]
antre
- Archaic form of entre.
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Noun[edit]
antre m (Cyrillic spelling антре)
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- English terms derived from Middle French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English 2-syllable words
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- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with archaic senses
- French terms derived from Latin
- French terms derived from Ancient Greek
- French 1-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French countable nouns
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- Mirandese terms derived from Latin
- Mirandese lemmas
- Mirandese prepositions
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese prepositions
- Portuguese archaic forms
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian nouns
- Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns