Antre

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈæn.tÉš/

Origin

From Middle French, from Latin antrum, from Ancient Greek ἄντρον.

Full definition of antre

Noun

1. (archaic) Cavern; cave.
• 1818, John Keats, , 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, , 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, , Volume 16,Hereat quoth he to himself, "If I enter this antre, haply shall I lose myself, and perish of hunger and thirst!"

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