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Ante vs Antre - What's the difference?

ante | antre |

As nouns the difference between ante and antre

is that ante is a price or cost, as in up the ante while antre is cavern; cave.

As a verb ante

is to pay the ante in poker. Often used ante up.

ante

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A price or cost, as in up the ante.
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  • (poker) In poker and other games, the contribution made by all players to the pot before dealing the cards.

    • See also

    * penny ante * up the ante

    Verb

  • To pay the ante in poker. Often used ante up .
  • To make an investment in money, effort, or time before knowing one's chances.

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    antre

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) Cavern; cave.
  • * 1818 , , Book II,
    • Aye, millions sparkled on a vein of gold, / Along whose track the prince quick footsteps told, / With all its lines abrupt and angular: / Out-shooting sometimes, like a meteor-star, / Through a vast antre ;
  • * 1879 , , Chapter XXIII: Treats of the Union of Temper and Policy,
    • Seeing him as she did, she turned from him and shunned his house as the antre of an ogre.
  • * 1888 , , Volume 16,
    • Hereat quoth he to himself, "If I enter this antre , haply shall I lose myself, and perish of hunger and thirst!"

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