Inter

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Inter- \In"ter-\ [L. inter, prep., among, between, a compar.
     form of in in; akin to intra, intro, within, Skr. antar
     between, in, and E. in. See {In}, and cf. {Entrails},
     {Interior}, {Enter-}, {Exterior}.]
     A prefix signifying among, between, amid; as, interact,
     interarticular, intermit.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Inter \In*ter"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Interred}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Interring}.] [OE. enteren, OF. enterer, enterrer, LL.
     interrare; L. pref. in- in + terra the earth. See {Terrace}.]
     To deposit and cover in the earth; to bury; to inhume; as, to
     inter a dead body. --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  inter
       v : place in a grave or tomb; "Stalin was buried behind the
           Kremlin wall on Red Square"; "The pharaos were entombed
           in the pyramids"; "My grandfather was laid to rest last
           Sunday" [syn: {bury}, {entomb}, {inhume}, {lay to rest}]
       [also: {interring}, {interred}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  19 Moby Thesaurus words for "inter":
     bury, coffin, conduct a funeral, encoffin, ensepulcher, enshrine,
     entomb, hearse, inearth, inhume, inurn, lay away, lay to rest,
     plant, put away, sepulcher, sepulture, tomb, unite
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  INTER. Between, among; as, inter vivos, between living persons; inter alia, 
  among others.