entire

1. 1.

   uncastrated adult male horse

   Synonymsstallion

   Broadermale horse

   Narrowerstud

Other forms of entire

plural

entires·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about entire

What does entire mean?

entire means "constituting the full quantity or extent; complete". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in entire?

entire has 3 syllables, though it cannot be divided in writing — the spelling has fewer vowels than the word has beats. In IPA it is /ɪnˈtaɪɚ/.

What is another word for entire?

Close synonyms include full, total, integral, intact, intact. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is entire a common word?

entire is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with entire?

3 words rhyme with entire. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.