entire
Plural: entires
Noun
- The whole or complete amount of something.
- uncastrated adult male horse
- The whole of something; the entirety.
- An uncastrated horse; a stallion.
- A complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted.
- Porter or stout as delivered from the brewery.
Adjective Satellite
- constituting the full quantity or extent; complete
- "an entire town devastated by an earthquake"
- constituting the undiminished entirety; lacking nothing essential especially not damaged; - Bacon
- "was able to keep the collection entire during his lifetime"
- (of leaves or petals) having a smooth edge; not broken up into teeth or lobes
- (used of domestic animals) sexually competent
- "an entire horse"
Adj
- Whole; complete.
- Having a smooth margin without any indentation.
- Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
- Complex-differentiable on all of ℂ.
- Not gelded.
- Morally whole; pure; sheer.
- Internal; interior.
Examples
- He decided to shuffle his rack, trusting the entire set of tiles to rearrange favorably.
- We had the entire building to ourselves for the evening.
Origin / 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.
Scrabble Score: 6
entire: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordentire: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
entire: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 7
entire: valid Words With Friends Word