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Wante vs Ante - What's the difference?

wante | ante |

As nouns the difference between wante and ante

is that wante is obsolete spelling of lang=en while ante is a price or cost, as in up the ante.

As verbs the difference between wante and ante

is that wante is obsolete spelling of lang=en while ante is to pay the ante in poker. Often used ante up.

wante

English

Noun

(head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1733, author=Various, title=Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=But they still followed them by guess, hopeing to find their dwellings; but they soone lost both them & them selves, falling into shuch thickets as were ready to tear their cloaths & armore in peeces, but were most distressed for wante of drinke. }}

    Verb

    (head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1621, author=Azel Ames, title=The Mayflower and Her Log, Complete, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I trow you must excomunicate me, or els you must goe without their companie, or we shall wante no quareling; but let them pass. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1890, author=William Painter, title=The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=We shall soner wante our Fathers and Senatours, then they their plebeian officers. }}

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    ante

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A price or cost, as in up the ante.
  • * '>citation
  • (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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