entire

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

en·tire BrE [ɪnˈtaɪə(r)] NAmE [ɪnˈtaɪər] adjective only before noun
(used when you are emphasizing that the whole of sth is involved)including everything, everyone or every part
Syn: ↑whole
• 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.

Word Origin:
late Middle English (formerly also as intire): from Old French entier, based on Latin integer ‘untouched, whole’, from in- ‘not’ + tangere ‘to touch’.

Thesaurus:
entire [entire] adj. only before noun
•The entire village was destroyed.
whole • • total • • full • • complete •
Opp: partial
a/an entire/whole/full/complete day/set
the entire/whole/total population
your entire/your whole/a full life
Entire or whole? Entire emphasizes sth more strongly than whole and is used especially to emphasize how bad sth is:
•I wasted an entire/a whole day on it.
• We spent the whole day on the beach.
 ✗ We spent the entire day on the beach.

Example Bank:
•I wasted a whole/an entire day on it.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  intact, integral, full, total, stallion