entire
/ɪnˈtaɪɚ/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.09 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having a smooth margin without any indentation.
adj
Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
adj
Complex-differentiable on all of ℂ.
adj
Not gelded.
Example Sentences
- "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; […]"
- "Spores tetrahedral, paraphyses mastoid-claviform, scales smooth, entire."
- "On top of that, he was entire, which meant his bloodline could carry on."
- "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."
Etymology
From Middle English entere, enter, borrowed from Anglo-Norman entier, from Latin integrum, accusative of integer (“whole”). Doublet of entier and integer.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɪnˈtaɪɚ/
- British English: /ɪnˈtaɪə/