antre

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See also: antré and antre-

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

antre m (plural antres)

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

Further reading

Anagrams

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French entrez (“enter”).

Pronunciation

Verb

antre

  1. to enter

Indonesian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Dutch aantreden.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: an‧tré

Noun

antré (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.

Conjugation

Conjugation of antre (meng-, transitive)
Root antre
Active Involuntary Passive Imperative Jussive
Active mengantre antre antrelah
Locative
Causative / Applicative1 mengantrekan diantrekan antrekan antrekanlah
Causative
Locative
Causative / Applicative1
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.

Derived terms

Further reading

Mirandese

Etymology

From Latin inter.

Preposition

antre

  1. between
  2. among

Portuguese

Preposition

antre

  1. Archaic form of entre.

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

antre m (Cyrillic spelling антре)

  1. entrée

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish آنتره (antre), from French entrée.

Pronunciation

Noun

antre (definite accusative antreyi, plural antreler)

  1. entrance

Declension

Inflection
Nominative antre
Definite accusative antreyi
Singular Plural
Nominative antre antreler
Definite accusative antreyi antreleri
Dative antreye antrelere
Locative antrede antrelerde
Ablative antreden antrelerden
Genitive antrenin antrelerin
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