all

Meaning

Det

1. Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or uncountable).
2. Throughout the whole of (a stated period of time; generally used with units of a day or longer).
3. Only; alone; nothing but.
4. (obsolete) Any.

Pron

1. Everything.
2. Everyone.
3. The only thing(s).
4. (India, Northern-Ireland, Scotland, Southern-US) Used after who, what, where, how and similar words, either without changing their meaning, or indicating that one expects that they cover more than one element, e.g. that "Who all attended?" is more than one person. (Some dialects only allow this to follow some words and not others.)

Adv

1. (childish, emphatic, intensifier, not-comparable, sometimes) Wholly; entirely; completely; totally.
2. (not-comparable) Apiece; each.
3. (not-comparable) So much; used with "the" and a comparative.
4. (not-comparable, obsolete, poetic) Even; just.
5. (not-comparable) A quotative particle, compare like.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Everything that one is capable of.
2. (countable) The totality of one's possessions.
3. (countable, uncountable) Everything in general; all that matters.

Conj

Although.

Adj

All gone; dead.

Synonyms

whole

every

🔁

everything

entire

everyone

completely

entirely

total

complete

altogether

everybody

totally

each

wholly

every one

any

fully

quite

general

many

absolutely

both

without exception

the whole

whole lot

together

common

thoroughly

totality

utterly

overall

all things

each one

whole of

full

at all

anything

every person

entirety

whatever

as a whole

much

in general

all together

gross

courtyard

various

all of it

finish

round

Translations

tout

todo

tous

tutto

todos

alle

ganz

alles

all

tutti

jeder

tot

al

alle

complètement

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɔːl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: all

Inherited from Old English: eall

Cognate with Western Frisian: al

Cognate with Dutch: al

Cognate with Scots: a'

Cognate with German: all

Cognate with Swedish: all

Cognate with Norwegian: all

Cognate with Icelandic: allur

Cognate with Welsh: holl

Cognate with Irish: uile

Cognate with Lithuanian: aliái

In summary

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- (“all”). 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).

Sentences

It was all just too complicated .

She wanted to know why her name was not on the drawings of all the previous years .

Today this industrial past has all but vanished .

The proportions were all wrong .

All three seats were left vacant until the next election .

All carriages are equipped with internal lighting .