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English
Etymology
From Middle French , from Latin antrum, from Ancient Greek ἄντρον (ántron). Doublet of antrum.
Pronunciation
Noun
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.
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin antrum (“cave, cavern”).
Pronunciation
Noun
antre m (plural antres)
- (poetic) cave
- Synonyms: caverna, cova
- (figurative) hole, dive (disreputable establishment)
- (anatomy) antrum
Further reading
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin antrum, from Ancient Greek ἄντρον (ántron).
Pronunciation
Noun
antre m (plural antres)
- cave
- den, lair
- (anatomy) antrum
Further reading
Anagrams
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French entrez (“enter”).
Pronunciation
Verb
antre
- to enter
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch aantreden.
Pronunciation
Noun
antré
- 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
- to queue,
- to put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line.
- to arrange themselves into a physical waiting queue.
Conjugation
Conjugation of antre (meng-, transitive)
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antre
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Passive
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mengantre
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antre
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antrelah
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Causative / Applicative1
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mengantrekan
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diantrekan
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antrekan
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antrekanlah
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1The -kan row is either causative or applicative, with transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning. Notes: Some of these forms do normally not exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning.
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Derived terms
Further reading
Mirandese
Etymology
From Latin inter.
Preposition
antre
- between
- among
Portuguese
Preposition
antre
- Archaic form of entre.
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
antre m (Cyrillic spelling антре)
- entrée
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish آنتره (antre), from French entrée.
Pronunciation
Noun
antre (definite accusative antreyi, plural antreler)
- entrance
Declension