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# ante

«ante» in Mova's school dictionary: **a stake put into the pot before a card game starts** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an ante, antes); verb (ante, antes, anted, anteing — ante up); prefix (ante- meaning before)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An ante is a stake put into the pot before a card game starts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ante/#m1)

2) To up the ante means to increase what is at stake or make a situation more serious or demanding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ante/#m2)

3) Ante- at the start of a word means "before", as in antenatal (before birth) or anteroom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ante/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday talk "up the ante" is common in news and sport. In words, ante- means before. Phrases: up the ante, raise the ante, ante up.

### examples

- The team upped the ante by training twice a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ante/#x1)
- The players put in their ante. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ante/#x2)
- Antenatal classes help parents before a baby is born. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ante/#x3)
- The bully upped the ante, so the teacher stepped in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ante/#x4)
- An anteroom is a small room before a bigger one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ante/#x5)
- Ante up — everyone puts in a coin! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ante/#x6)
- "I found myself in an ante-room," said the shadow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ante/#x7)

### note

Trap: ante- (before) is different from anti- (against): antenatal vs antibiotic. Said AN-tee.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ante» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ante/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.