[onlybeforenoun] (used when you are emphasizing that the whole of sth is involved) including everything, everyone or every part
SYNWHOLE:
The entire village was destroyed. * I wasted an entire day on it. * I have never in my entire life heard such nonsense! * The disease threatens to wipe out the entire population.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for entire is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is entire a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, entire is tagged as adjective.
Does entire appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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