all
Meaning
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- Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or uncountable).
- Throughout the whole of (a stated period of time; generally used with units of a day or longer).
- Only; alone; nothing but.
- (obsolete) Any.
Synonyms
whole lot
the whole
each one
whole of
all things
every person
whole thing
every thing
each and every one
every kind
all of it
complete set
every last one
all of us
all gone
the lot
a great deal of
all of them
and everything else
a variety of
every kind of
near to
whole works
every direction
overall width
wing span
every one of
the whole bunch
he and she
without remainder
not defective
without any exception
whole crowd
the Universe
all end-of-line hyphenation
all quotation marks
all those
a lot of
at the rate of
from all sides
great and small
in abundance
just like
large quantity
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɔːl/
Etymology
From Middle English all, from Old English eall, from Proto-West Germanic *all, from Proto-Germanic *allaz, of uncertain origin but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“beyond, other”). Cognate with West Frisian al (“all”), Dutch al (“all”), Scots a' (“all”), German all (“all”), Swedish all (“all”), Norwegian all (“all”), Icelandic allur (“all”), Welsh holl (“all”), Irish uile (“all”), Lithuanian aliái (“all, each, every”). The dialectal sense “all gone” is a calque of German alle. The use in who all, where all etc. also has equivalents in German (see alles).
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