entire
An uncastrated horse; a stallionAn uncastrated horse; a stallion.
» Tom was talking the entire time.
Том все время говорил. — venticello
Том увесь час розмовляв. — deniko
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4 senses(countable, uncountable)An uncastrated horse; a stallion.
uncastrated adult male horse
(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.
(archaic, countable, uncountable)The whole of something; the entirety.
Examples
1074 sentencesTom was talking the entire time.
Том увесь час розмовляв. — deniko
ruТом все время говорил. — venticello
Tom was crying the entire time.
Том увесь час плакав. — deniko
Tom has lived here his entire life.
Том прожив тут все своє життя. — deniko
Tom was with us the entire time.
Том увесь час був з нами. — deniko
ruТом всё время был с нами. — fjay69
I spent the entire day on the beach.
Я провів весь день на пляжі. — ChickenKiev
ruЯ провёл весь день на пляже. — marafon
deIch verbrachte den ganzen Tag am Strand. — Wolf
Origin
From Middle English entere, enter, borrowed from Anglo-Norman entier, from Latin integrum,From Middle English entere, enter, borrowed from Anglo-Norman entier, from Latin integrum, accusative of integer (“whole”). Doublet of entier and integer.
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Forms
plural: entiresSynonyms
1 synonyms- uncastrated adult male horse:stallion
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
12 patterns- spent the entire
- the entire day
- entire life
- the entire time
- entire day
- his entire life
- my entire life
- entire bag of
- entire time
- read the entire
- the entire bag
- for the entire
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.