antre

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈæn.tɚ/

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

• aren't, earnt, Netra

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French

Etymology

Latin antrum, from Ancient Greek ἄντρον (antron).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɑ̃tʁ/

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Noun

antre m (plural antres)

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

Anagrams

• entra
• renta

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

antre m (Cyrillic spelling антре)

1. entrée