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n. Games The stake that each poker player must put into the pool before receiving a hand or before receiving new cards. See Synonyms at bet.

n. A price to be paid, especially as one's share; cost: "Whether they could actually turn back Soviet policy depended on many factors that Moscow might yet choose to test by upping the ante” ( Foreign Affairs).

v. Games To put (one's stake) into the pool in poker.

v. To pay: Let's ante up the bill.

verb-intransitive. Games To put one's stake into the pool in poker: Don't look at your cards until everyone has anted.

verb-intransitive. To pay up.

n. A price or cost, as in up the ante.

n. In poker and other games, the contribution made by all players to the pot before dealing the cards.

v. To pay the ante in poker. Often used ante up.

v. To make an investment in money, effort, or time before knowing one's chances.

n. Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins.

v. To put up (an ante).

n. In the game of poker, the stake or bet deposited in the pool by each player before drawing new cards; also, the receptacle for the stakes.

In the game of poker, to deposit stakes in the pool or common receptacle for them: commonly used in the phrase to ante up.

In heraldry, ingrafted: said of one color or metal broken into another by means of dovetailed, nebulé, embattled, or ragulé edges. Also enté.

A prefix of Latin origin, originally only in compounds or derivatives taken from the Latin or formed from Latin elements, as in antecessor, antepenultimate, antemeridian, etc., but now a familiar English formative, meaning before, either in place or in time.

v. place one's stake

n. (poker) the initial contribution that each player makes to the pot

"Definitely the easy way to up the ante is to add a new trick."

anted    anteed    anteing    antes    anting   

stake    béton    punt    back    game    gage    stakes    bet    wager   

Auntie    Chianti    Santy    anti    auntie    canty    chianti    panty    scanty    shanty   

Paulo    EO    iam    etiam    quidem    neque    tibi    quae    multo    magis