antre

See also: antré and antre-

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæn.tə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæn.tɚ/, [ˈæn.(ɾ)ɚ]
• Rhymes: -æntə(ɹ)

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!"

Anagrams

• Arent, Netra, Teran, aren't, arent, atren, earnt, nater

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin antrum (“cave, cavern”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈan.tɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈan.tɾe]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

antre m (plural antres)

1. (poetic) cave

   Synonyms: caverna, cova

2. (figurative) hole, dive (disreputable establishment)
3. (anatomy) antrum

Further reading

• “antre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “antre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “antre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin antrum, from Ancient Greek ἄντρον (ántron).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃tʁ/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France):

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• Homophone: entre

Noun

antre m (plural antres)

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

Further reading

• “antre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• entra
• renta

Haitian Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ã.tɣe/

• Audio:

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Etymology 1

From French entrer (“to enter”).

Verb

antre

1. to enter

Etymology 2

From French entrée (“entrance”).

Noun

antre

1. entrance, opening

Etymology 3

Preposition

antre

1. alternative form of ant (“between, among”)

References

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[1], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, pages 12, 13

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• antri (nonstandard)

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch aantree, a nominal form of aantreden.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈan̪t̪re]
• Hyphenation: an‧tré

Noun

antré (plural antre-antre)

1. queue, a line of people, vehicles or other objects, in which one at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on, and which newcomers join at the opposite end (the back)

   Synonym: antrean

Verb

antré (active mengantre, imperative antre, emphatic-jussive antrelah)

1. to queue,

   Synonym: beratur

   1. to put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line
   2. to arrange themselves into a physical waiting queue

Conjugation

Conjugation of antre (meng-, transitive)

root	antre
	active	passive		basic imperative	emphatic jussive
		reflective1	ordinary
	ordinary
nominative	mengantre			antre	antrelah
accusative / dative / locative
perfective causative / applicative2	mengantrekan		diantrekan	antrekan	antrekanlah
	causative
nominative
accusative / dative / locative
perfective causative / applicative2

¹ There is another form of reflective passive verb with affixation of ke- -an which is not included in the table. This form is only attested in active voice without causative affixation of per-.
² The -kan row is either causative or applicative. With transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning.
Some of these forms do not normally exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning.

Derived terms

• antrean
• mengantre
• pengantre
• pengantrean

Further reading

• “antre”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Mirandese

Etymology

From Latin inter.

Preposition

antre

1. between
2. among

Portuguese

Preposition

antre

1. archaic form of entre

Further reading

• “antre”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “antre”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

antre m inan (Cyrillic spelling антре)

1. entrée

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish آنتره (antre), from French entrée, feminine past participle of entrer, from Middle French entrer, from Old French entrer, from Latin intrāre. Piecewise doublet of intro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑnt.ɾe/

Noun

antre (definite accusative antreyi, plural antreler)

1. entrance

Declension

Declension of antre

	singular	plural
nominative	antre	antreler
definite accusative	antreyi	antreleri
dative	antreye	antrelere
locative	antrede	antrelerde
ablative	antreden	antrelerden
genitive	antrenin	antrelerin