whole

Meaning

1. Entire, undivided.
2. Entire, undivided.
3. Sound, uninjured, healthy.
4. From which none of its constituents has been removed.
5. As yet unworked.

entire

𐐸𐐬𐑊

the whole

full amount

all that one has

all that there is

rectify

total quantity

fixed maximum

total amount

great amount

in good health

kit and caboodle

not half

well-rounded

whole body

all the rest

all-in-all

whole thing

fully discharged

fully seen to

without remainder

not defective

consisting of six parts

industrial plant

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/həʊl/

From Middle English hole (“healthy, unhurt, whole”), from Old English hāl (“healthy, safe”), from Proto-West Germanic *hail, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, safe, sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“healthy, whole”). The spelling with wh-, introduced in the 15th century, was for disambiguation with hole, and was absent in Scots. Cognates Compare West Frisian hiel, Low German heel/heil, Dutch heel, German heil, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål hel, Norwegian Nynorsk heil; also Welsh coel (“omen”), Breton kel (“omen, mention”), Old Prussian kails (“healthy”), Old Church Slavonic цѣлъ (cělŭ, “healthy, unhurt”). Related to hale, health, hail, hallow, heal, and holy.