antre

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

• “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, The Egoist, 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.”

• “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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