Meaning & use
Antre
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A cave or cavern, used chiefly in literary or archaic writing.
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Shakespeare's Othello speaks of "antres vast and deserts idle."
The poet imagined dragons sleeping deep within a shadowy antre.
A note on using this word
A rare, poetic word derived from Latin "antrum," now almost entirely confined to literary quotation.
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