ENTIRE


Meaning of ENTIRE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪntaɪə(r) ]

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.

You use entire when you want to emphasize that you are referring to the whole of something, for example, the whole of a place, time, or population.

He had spent his entire life in China as a doctor...

There are only 60 swimming pools in the entire country...

= whole

ADJ : det ADJ [ emphasis ]

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