antre
English
Etymology
From Middle French, from Latin antrum, from Ancient Greek ἄντρον (ántron).
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.
- 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!"
- 1818, John Keats, Endymion, Book II,
French
Etymology
Latin antrum, from Ancient Greek ἄντρον (ántron).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑ̃tʁ/
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Further reading
- “antre” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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