entire

Definition

Whole; complete.

Etymology

From Middle English entere, enter, borrowed from Anglo-Norman entier, from Latin integrum, accusative of integer (“whole”), from Proto-Italic *əntagros (“untouched”). Doublet of entier and integer.

Example Sentences

• "We had the entire building to ourselves for the evening."
• "No man is an Iland, intire of it ſelfe; euery man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]"
• "Spores tetrahedral, paraphyses mastoid-claviform, scales smooth, entire."

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