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antes

antes is the plural of ante.

antes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ante.

Meaning of ante

Noun

ante (plural antes)

  1. A price or cost, as in up the ante.
    • “… There was a man who always painted marble seats and another who did nothing but sheep. So a fellow I knew determined only to paint backs. Men's backs, women's backs, girls' backs and boys backs. … his best known bacchante was described by a critic as all back and no ante, but his backs became...1936, Herbert Adams, chapter 2, in A Word of Six Letters
  2. In poker and other games, the contribution made by all players to the pot, often before dealing all the cards.

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Proper noun capitalized: Antes

Antes

  1. (historical) A medieval European tribal union who lived north of the lower Danube and the Black Sea (on the territory of modern Moldova and Ukraine) in the 6th and 7th century AD.

Forms of antes

alternative formAntae

Words formed from antes

Phrases with antes

Questions about antes

What does antes mean?
Antes means a medieval European tribal union who lived north of the lower Danube and the Black Sea (on the territory of modern Moldova and Ukraine) in the 6th and 7th century AD.
What is antes the plural of?
Antes is the plural of ante.
What part of speech is antes?
Antes is a proper noun.

Words near antes in the dictionary

  1. anteroventrolateral
  2. anteroventrolaterally
  3. anteroversion
  4. anteroverted
  5. anterversioflexion
  6. antes
  7. antes in
  8. antes up
  9. antes-up
  10. antescript
  11. antescripts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: antes (page history and authors); Antes (page history and authors); ante (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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