Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - entire

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. You use entire when you want to emphasize that you are referring to the whole of something, for example, the whole of a place, time, or population. He had spent his entire life in China as a doctor... There are only 60 swimming pools in the entire country... = whole ADJ: det ADJ c darkgreen]emphasis ENTIRELY Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Entirely means completely and not just partly. ...an entirely new approach... Fraud is an entirely different matter... Their price depended almost entirely on their scarcity... = completely, totally ADV: ADV adj, ADV with v, ADV with cl/group 2. Entirely is also used to emphasize what you are saying. I agree entirely... Oh, the whole episode was entirely his fault. ADV: ADV with v, ADV group c darkgreen]emphasis