entire

English

Alternative forms

intire (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English entere, enter, borrowed from Anglo-Norman entier, from Latin integrum, accusative of integer, from in- (“not”) + tangō (“touch”). Doublet of integer.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtaɪə/, /ənˈtaɪə/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtaɪɚ/, /ənˈtaɪɚ/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)

Adjective

entire (not comparable)

(sometimes postpositive) Whole; complete.
We had the entire building to ourselves for the evening.
- 1624, John Donne, “17. Meditation”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: Printed by A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, OCLC 55189476; republished as Geoffrey Keynes, John Sparrow, editor, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions: […], Cambridge: At the University Press, 1923, OCLC 459265555, lines 2–3, page 98:
  No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]
(botany) Having a smooth margin without any indentation.
(botany) Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
(complex analysis, of a complex function) Complex-differentiable on all of ℂ.
(of a male animal) Not gelded.
- 2018, Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay, page 423:
  On top of that, he was entire, which meant his bloodline could carry on.
Morally whole; pure; sheer.
- c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iv]:
  See now, whether pure fear and entire cowardice doth not make thee
  wrong this virtuous gentlewoman to close with us.
- 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, OCLC 937919305:
  No man had ever a heart more entire to the king.
Internal; interior.
- 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet VI”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, OCLC 932931864; reprinted in Amoretti and Epithalamion (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas […], 1927, OCLC 474036557:
  Depp is the wound, that dints the parts entire

Derived terms

entire function
entirety
go the entire animal
go the entire swine

Related terms

integrity
integrate

Translations

whole

Albanian: tërë (sq)
Arabic:
Egyptian Arabic: كامل‎ (kāmil)
Armenian: ամբողջ (hy) (ambołǰ), ողջ (hy) (ołǰ), (colloquial, dialectal) սաղ (hy) (sał)
Aromanian: ntreg, ãntreg
Asturian: enteru (ast)
Azerbaijani: bütün (az)
Bashkir: бөтөн (bötön)
Belarusian: цэ́лы (cély), ўвесь (ŭvjesʹ), по́ўны (póŭny)
Breton: penn-da-benn (br)
Bulgarian: цял (bg) (cjal), непокъ́тнат (bg) (nepokǎ́tnat)
Catalan: enter (ca)
Cherokee: ᎬᏩᏃᏍᏓ (gvwanosda)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 成 (seng⁴) (followed by a classifier)
Mandarin: 全部的 (zh) (quánbù de), 整個／整个 (zh) (zhěnggè), 完全 (zh) (wánquán)
Czech: celý (cs) m
Dutch: geheel (nl), hele (nl), volledig (nl)
Ewe: blibo
Finnish: koko (fi), kokonainen (fi)
French: entier (fr) m, entière (fr) f
Friulian: intîr
Galician: enteiro
Georgian: მთელი (mteli), მთლიანი (mtliani)
German: ganz (de), gesamt (de)
Gothic: 𐌰𐌻𐌻𐍃 (alls), 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐌻𐍃 (fulls)
Greek:
Ancient: ὅλος (hólos)
Hebrew: מלא‎ (he) m (malé)
Hungarian: teljes (hu), egész (hu)
Ido: tota (io)
Italian: intero (it) m, intera (it) f
Japanese: 全部の (ja) (ぜんぶの, zenbu no), 全体の (ja) (ぜんたいの, zentai no)
Korean: 전부의 (ko) (jeonbu-ui)
Ladin: ntier, intier
Latin: integer, sollus
Latvian: viss (lv), vesels
Neapolitan: sano
Norman: entchi
Occitan: entièr (oc)
Polish: cały (pl)
Portuguese: inteiro (pt), todo (pt)
Romanian: întreg (ro)
Russian: це́лый (ru) (célyj), весь (ru) (vesʹ), по́лный (ru) (pólnyj)
Sanskrit: सर्व (sa) (sárva), (Early Vedic) विश्व (sa) (viśva)
Scottish Gaelic: buileach
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: цео, цијел
Roman: ceo (sh), cijel (sh)
Sicilian: nteru
Slovak: celý (sk)
Spanish: entero (es)
Swedish: hel (sv)
Telugu: మొత్తము (te) (mottamu)
Turkish: bütün (tr), tam (tr), yekpare (tr)
Ukrainian: ці́лий (uk) (cílyj), весь (uk) (vesʹ), по́вний (póvnyj)
Venetian: intier, intiero, intrego, intriego
Vietnamese: toàn bộ (vi), toàn thể (vi), hoàn toàn (vi)
Volapük: lölik (vo)

having a smooth margin

Finnish: ehytlaitainen (fi)

botany: consisting of a single piece

complex analysis: differentiable everywhere

Finnish: analyyttinen (fi)

of a male animal not gelded

Finnish: leikkaamaton (fi)

without mixture or alloy of anything

Finnish: puhdas (fi), täydellinen (fi), kokonainen (fi), jakamaton (fi), ehjä (fi), eheä (fi)

internal; interior — see internal,‎ interior

Noun

entire (countable and uncountable, plural entires)

(now rare) The whole of something; the entirety.
- 1876, WE Gladstone, Homeric Synchronism:
  In the entire of the Poems we never hear of a merchant ship of the Greeks.
- 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 19:
  ‘Then is the City Magistrate the entire of your family now?’
An uncastrated horse; a stallion.
- 2005, James Meek, The People's Act of Love (Canongate 2006, p. 124)
  He asked why Hijaz was an entire. You know what an entire is, do you not, Anna? A stallion which has not been castrated.
(philately) 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.

Translations

stallion — see stallion

Anagrams

entier, in-tree, nerite, triene