antre

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæn.tə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæn.tɚ/, [ˈæn.(ɾ)ɚ]
• Rhymes: -æntə(ɹ)

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!"

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

From Latin antrum (“cave, cavern”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈan.tɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈan.tɾe]

antre m (plural antres)

1. (poetic) cave

   Synonyms: caverna, cova

2. (figurative) hole, dive (disreputable establishment)
3. (anatomy) antrum

• “antre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “antre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “antre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃tʁ/

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• Homophone: entre

antre m (plural antres)

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

• “antre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• entra
• renta

From French entrez (“enter”).

• IPA^(key): /ã.tɣe/

antre

1. to enter

• antri (nonstandard)

From Dutch aantreden.

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

antré (plural antre-antre)

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

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

• “antre” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Latin inter.

antre

1. between
2. among

antre

1. archaic form of entre

antre m inan (Cyrillic spelling антре)

1. entrée

From Ottoman Turkish آنتره (antre), from French entrée, feminine past participle of entrer, from Middle French entrer, from Old French entrer, from Latin intrāre. Piecewise doublet of intro.

• IPA^(key): /ɑnt.ɾe/

antre (definite accusative antreyi, plural antreler)

1. entrance