Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A cavern; a cave.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A cavern; a cave.
Wiktionary
- n. archaic Cavern; cave.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A cavern.
Etymologies
- From Middle French, from Latin antrum, from Ancient Greek ἄντρον (antron). (Wiktionary)
- French, from Latin antrum; see antrum. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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?””
“Foodbeam est vraiment un merveilleux antre de gourmandise… les photos sont toujours à tomber et les recettes complètement divine et terriblement appétissantes… Continue encore!”
“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.”
“Sacre nom, nous sommes tombes dans un antre de betes sauvages!" exclaimed”
“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.”
“Seeing him as she did, she turned from him and shunned his house as the antre of an ogre.”
“I set him at the narrow mouth of the great snow antre.”
“Hereat quoth he to himself, "If I enter this antre, haply shall I lose myself, and perish of hunger and thirst!”
“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.”
“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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