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单词 antre
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antren.

Brit. /ˈantə/, U.S. /ˈæntər/
Forms: 1500s 1700s– antre, 1600s antar, 1600s antree.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French antre.
Etymology: < Middle French antre cavity (a1500), cave, cavern (1540) < classical Latin antrum (see antrum n.). Compare Old Occitan antre (c1350).
Now rare.
A cave, a cavern; (also) a lair, a den. Also figurative and in figurative contexts.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] > cave
covec950
denOE
cavec1220
rochea1300
spelunk13..
cavernc1374
cabin1377
speke1377
antruma1398
minea1398
thurse-house?c1450
crypt?a1475
vault1535
chamber1575
antre1585
underground1594
Peak1600
lustre?1615
open?1644
cunicle1657
subterranean1714
subterrane1759
loch1767
purgatory1797
vug1818
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xxix. f. 152v In Tenare is the temple of Neptune, & a caue or Antre [Fr. antre], like vnto the same of Pont called Acherusienne.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 139 Antrees [1623 Antars] vast, and Deserts idle. View more context for this quotation
1776 Descr. Killarney i. 4 Here fell the hero; these sad hollow antres, That grove, did hear his moan.
1797 F. G. Waldron Virgin Queen v. ii. 104 With Faith who look Thereon, may antres vast explore; Or, fearless, hear hoarse Neptune roar.
1818 J. Keats Endymion ii. 64 Out-shooting..like a meteor-star, Through a vast antre.
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone II. xiv. 181 I set him at the narrow mouth of the great snow antre.
1879 G. Meredith Egoist II. v. 109 She..shunned his house as the antre of an ogre.
1918 E. Phillpotts Spinners x. 62 Her journey was ended and the wonderful country of man's love explored—its oases visited, its antres endured.
1952 C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil Aeneid iii. 65 You will find an ecstatic, a seeress, who in her antre communicates Destiny.
1987 P. Conrad Song of Love & Death 161 Berlioz called this an architectural work, because of the echoing antres its sonorities require.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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