Noun: entire
| Singular | entire |
| Plural | entires |
Sample Sentences
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In the entire of the Poems we never hear of a merchant ship of the Greeks. [1876, WE Gladstone, Homeric Synchronism:]
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‘Then is the City Magistrate the entire of your family now?’ [1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 19:]
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He asked why Hijaz was an entire. You know what an entire is, do you not, Anna? A stallion which has not been castrated. [2005, James Meek, The People's Act of Love, Canongate, published 2006, page 124:]
Nouns inflected like entire
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: Middle English Nouns '
entere', Latin Nouns '
integrum'.
Verbs referencing "entire"
Spanish Nouns
entero.