antre

See also: antré and antre-

English

Etymology

From Middle French [Term?], from Latin antrum, from Ancient Greek ἄντρον (ántron).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæn.tə(ɹ)/
• (General American) 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!"

Anagrams

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

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃tʁ/

• Audio (Paris)

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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 (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• entra
• renta

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch een (“a”) +‎ rij (“row, line”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

antré (plural, first-person possessive antreku, second-person possessive antremu, third-person possessive antrenya)

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

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

Alternative forms

• antri

Derived terms

• antrean
• mengantre
• pengantre
• pengantrean

 

Further reading

• “antre” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

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Mirandese

Etymology

From Latin inter.

Preposition

antre

1. between
2. among

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Portuguese

Preposition

antre

1. Archaic form of entre.

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

antre m (Cyrillic spelling антре)

1. entrée