noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
UK:/ɪnˈtɹiːti/
UK:/ənˈtɹiːti/
UK:/ɛnˈtɹiːti/
Southern-England:Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
US:/ɛnˈtɹiːti/
US:/ɪnˈtɹiːti/
US:/ənˈtɹiːti/
rhymes with -iːti
CMU ARPABET:EH0 N T R IY1 T IY0
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
noun
Meaning 1
The act of entreating or beseeching; a strong petition; pressing solicitation; begging.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
1779, William Ward, An Essay on Grammar as it may be applied to the English Language, New Edition, page 202, In all commands or entreaties, the state commanded, or entreated, must be contingent; i. e. capable of being, or not being, as the command or entreaty expresses it.
1964 October, P. F. Strawson, Intention and Convention in Speech Acts, The Philosophical Review, Volume 73, Number 4, page 444, We can readily imagine circumstances in which an utterance of the words "Don't go" would be correctly described not as a request or an order, but as an entreaty.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
noun
Meaning 2
A treatment; reception; entertainment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
