entire
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- United Kingdom//ɪnˈtaɪə//
- United Kingdom//ənˈtaɪə//
- United States//ɪnˈtaɪɚ//
- United States//ənˈtaɪɚ//
Whole; complete.
adjective
- 1
Whole; complete.
We had the entire building to ourselves for the evening.
No man is an Iland, intire of it ſelfe; euery man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]
- 2
Having a smooth margin without any indentation.
Spores tetrahedral, paraphyses mastoid-claviform, scales smooth, entire.
- 3
Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
- 4
Complex-differentiable on all of ℂ.
- 5
Not gelded.
On top of that, he was entire, which meant his bloodline could carry on.
- 6
Morally whole; pure; sheer.
See now, whether pure fear and entire cowardice doth not make thee / wrong this virtuous gentlewoman to close with us.
No man had ever a heart more entire to the king.
- 7
Internal; interior.
Depp is the wound, that dints the parts entire
Etymology
From Middle English entere, enter, borrowed from Anglo-Norman entier, from Latin integrum, accusative of integer (“whole”), from Proto-Italic *əntagros (“untouched”). Doublet of entier and integer.
noun
- 1
archaicThe whole of something; the entirety.
In the entire of the Poems we never hear of a merchant ship of the Greeks.
‘Then is the City Magistrate the entire of your family now?’
- 2
An uncastrated horse; a stallion.
He asked why Hijaz was an entire. You know what an entire is, do you not, Anna? A stallion which has not been castrated.
- 3
A complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted.
- 4
Porter or stout as delivered from the brewery.
Forms
- plural
- entires