entire
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Definition of entire
11 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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(not-comparable, postpositional, sometimes)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; […]”
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adj
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(not-comparable, postpositional, sometimes)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; […]”
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(not-comparable)Having a smooth margin without any indentation.
“Spores tetrahedral, paraphyses mastoid-claviform, scales smooth, entire.”
- (not-comparable)Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
- (not-comparable)Complex-differentiable on all of ℂ.
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(not-comparable)Not gelded.
“On top of that, he was entire, which meant his bloodline could carry on.”
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(not-comparable)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.”
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(not-comparable)Internal; interior.
“Depp is the wound, that dints the parts entire”
noun
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(archaic, countable, uncountable)The 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?’”
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(countable, uncountable)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.”
- (countable, uncountable)A complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted.
- (countable, uncountable)Porter or stout as delivered from the brewery.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
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.
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