Ante
['æntɪ]
Definition
(noun.) (poker) the initial contribution that each player makes to the pot.
(verb.) place one's stake.
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Definition
(n.) Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins.
(v. t. & i.) To put up (an ante).
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Examples
- Gerald was left behind like a postulant in the ante-room of this temple of mysteries, this woman. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Nobody had disturbed her, no faint rustling of the silk dress had been audible, either in the ante-room or in the passage. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- As was pointed out in the discussion of habit-forming (ante, p. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In my haste and my agitation I left the door of the ante-chamber open, but I closed the door of the bedroom the moment I was inside it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- There was a smart young Frenchwoman waiting in Nugent's ante-room, and we rated him most unmercifully about her. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I asked her how she came to be so forgetful as to leave the key on the outside of the ante-room. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- It meant a rebellion against existing social institutions, customs, and ideals (See ante, p. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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