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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishentere,enter, borrowed fromAnglo-Normanentier, fromLatinintegrum, accusative ofinteger(whole), fromProto-Italic*əntagros(untouched).Doublet ofentier andinteger.

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Adjective

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entire (notcomparable)

  1. (sometimes postpositive)Whole;complete.
    We had theentire building to ourselves for the evening.
  2. (botany) Having asmooth margin without anyindentation.
  3. (botany) Consisting of a single piece, as acorolla.
  4. (complex analysis, of acomplexfunction)Complex-differentiable on all of.
  5. (of a maleanimal)Notgelded.
    • 2018, Markus Zusak,Bridge of Clay, page423:
      On top of that, he wasentire, which meant his bloodline could carry on.
  6. Morallywhole;pure;sheer.
  7. Internal;interior.

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Translations

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whole
having a smooth margin
botany: consisting of a single piece
complex analysis: differentiable everywhere
of a male animal not gelded
without mixture or alloy of anything
internal; interiorseeinternal,‎interior

Noun

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entire (countable anduncountable,pluralentires)

  1. (now rare) Thewhole of something; theentirety.
    • 1876, WE Gladstone,Homeric Synchronism:
      In theentire of the Poems we never hear of a merchant ship of the Greeks.
    • 1924,EM Forster,A Passage to India, Penguin, published2005, page19:
      ‘Then is the City Magistrate theentire of your family now?’
  2. An uncastrated horse; astallion.
    • 2005, James Meek,The People's Act of Love, Canongate, published2006, page124:
      He asked why Hijaz was anentire. You know what an entire is, do you not, Anna? A stallion which has not been castrated.
  3. (philately) A completeenvelope with stamps and allofficial markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted.
  4. Porter orstout as delivered from thebrewery.

Translations

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stallionseestallion
wholly

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