Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cavern; a cave.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cavern; a cave.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A cavern.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic Cavern;
cave .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Then he carried him into the antre and sat down with him, whilst Hasan related to him what had befallen him in the Islands of Wak; whereat the Elder marvelled with exceeding marvel and said, “O Hasan, how didst thou deliver thy wife and children?”
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Foodbeam est vraiment un merveilleux antre de gourmandise… les photos sont toujours à tomber et les recettes complètement divine et terriblement appétissantes… Continue encore!
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Watch came, with his little scut of a tail cocked as sharp as duty, and I set him at the narrow mouth of the great snow antre.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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"Sacre nom, nous sommes tombes dans un antre de betes sauvages!" exclaimed
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A coral reef is not only an instrument of destruction, but a place of sepulchre; the submarine cliff is profoundly undercut, and presents the mouth of a huge antre in which the bodies of men and the hulls of ships are alike hurled down and buried.
A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Seeing him as she did, she turned from him and shunned his house as the antre of an ogre.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Seeing him as she did, she turned from him and shunned his house as the antre of an ogre.
The Egoist George Meredith 1868
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I set him at the narrow mouth of the great snow antre.
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Hereat quoth he to himself, "If I enter this antre, haply shall I lose myself, and perish of hunger and thirst!"
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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So they set out together and when they reached it they found it a site right strong as though fortified, and entering the antre they fell to considering it right and left till they reached its head where they came upon the little pavilion.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
qms commented on the word antre
A cave man might woo her with banter
Or show shiny stones to enchant her,
If wise she'll require
That he light a fire
Before she'll bed down in his antre.
July 13, 2017