From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishentireen‧tire /ɪnˈtaɪə $ -ˈtaɪr/ ●●●S3W2 adjective [only before noun]ALL/EVERYTHINGused when you want to emphasize that you mean all of a group, period of time, amount etcSYN whole
It was the worst day in my entire life.
The entire staff agreed.
Have you drunk the entire bottle?Examples from the Corpusentire• No wonder; in her entirecareer in the Civil Service she has never typed out anything remotely like it.• Gary was so hungry that he ate an entirechicken for dinner.• We realized that our entireconversation had been recorded.• Unless Guy came up with an acceptableexplanation, the entire Court would be gossiping about them.• He returns to the deck and commands the entirecrew to come before him.• Dad spent the entire day in the kitchen.• I wasted an entire day waiting at the airport.• In this sense athletics offer a metaphor of the entiredilemma of liberation.• This function of the word processor allows you to correct the entiredocument before printing.• Omegaview/400, giving a singleworkstation view of the entirenetwork.• Grijalva said the supervisors were dancing in the dark without specificdevelopment plans for the entireproperty.• The researcherstracked their gifts for the entire year.Originentire(1300-1400)Old Frenchentier, from Latininteger; → INTEGER
