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antre

UK/ˈæn.tə(ɹ)/US/ˈæn.tɚ/

antre noun: cavern; cave.

Noun

antre (plural antres)

  1. (archaic) Cavern; cave.
    • 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;1818, John Keats, Endymion, Book II
    • Seeing him as she did, she turned from him and shunned his house as the antre of an ogre.1879, George Meredith, The Egoist, Chapter XXIII: Treats of the Union of Temper and Policy

antre meaning in Tamil and Urdu

antre in Tamil

முழைஞ்சு, மலைக்குகை

antre in Urdu

غار, کھوہ, گُپھا

Forms of antre

pluralantres

Origin of antre

From Middle French antre, from Latin antrum, from Ancient Greek ἄντρον (ántron). Doublet of antrum.

Words that rhyme with antre

Questions about antre

What does antre mean?
Antre means cavern; cave.
What is antre in Tamil?
Antre in Tamil is முழைஞ்சு, மலைக்குகை. See Antre meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is antre?
Antre is a noun.
How do you pronounce antre?
Antre is pronounced /ˈæn.tə(ɹ)/ (UK).
What is the plural of antre?
The plural of antre is antres.

Words near antre in the dictionary

  1. antral
  2. antralization
  3. Antras
  4. Antrases
  5. Antratsyt
  6. antre
  7. antrectomies
  8. antrectomy
  9. antres
  10. Antriasian
  11. Antriasians

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Adapted from Wiktionary: antre (page history and authors); antre (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); antre (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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