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/ɔːl/UK/u(ɫ)//ɔl/US/ɒl/CA

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- (“all”). Cognates Cognate with Scots a, a', aa, aal, aw (“all”), Yola aal, al, all, aul (“all”), North Frisian aal, aale, ale, ali, åle (“all”), Saterland Frisian al (“already”), aal (“all”), West Frisian alle (“all”), Dutch al (“all”), German and Luxembourgish all (“all”), Vilamovian oły, ołły (“all”), Yiddish אַלע (ale, “all”), Danish al (“all”), Faroese and Icelandic allur (“all”), Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish all (“all”), Norwegian Nynorsk aillj, all (“all”), Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌻𐍃 (alls, “all”); also Breton and Welsh holl (“all”), Cornish oll (“all”), Irish alig, eile, uile, uileag, uilig (“all”), Manx ooilley (“all”), Scottish Gaelic uile, uileag (“all”), Lithuanian aliái (“every”), Armenian ողջ (oġǰ, “entire, whole”). 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).

  1. calqued from alle
  2. derived from *h₂el-✻ — “all”
  3. inherited from *allaz✻
  4. inherited from *all✻
  5. inherited from eall
  6. inherited from all

Definitions

  1. Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun…

    Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or uncountable).

    • All contestants must register for the footrace: we've arranged numbers for them all.
    • List all books of which you were the sole or co-author.
    • All flesh is originally grass.

  2. Throughout the whole of (a stated period of time

    Throughout the whole of (a stated period of time; generally used with units of a day or longer).

    • The store is open all day and all night.
    • I’ve been working on this all year.

  3. Only

    Only; alone; nothing but.

    • He's all talk; he never puts his ideas into practice.
    • I was born to speak all mirth and no matter.
  4. ›+ 17 more definitions

    1. Any.

      • without all remedy

    2. Everything.

      • Some gave all they had.
      • She knows all and sees all.
      • All of Jones’s maneuvers to trounce Kennedy.

    3. Everyone.

      • A good time was had by all (of you/us/them).
      • We all enjoyed the movie.
      • I've got three children, of whom all are studying medicine.

    4. The only thing(s).

      • All that was left was a small pile of ash.
      • We ate potatoes and ziti .... that's all.

    5. Used after who, what, where, how and similar words, either without changing their…

      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.)

      • Q. Now, then, when you started to go to stake the claims, who all went along?
      • "I mean, you could have called us—collect, o'course—jes' to let us know how-all it's a-goin'."
      • "Where all did he go? What exactly was his job?" Gary shrugged and produced a weak laugh. "I reckon the Middle East. Ain't that where all the oil is?"

    6. Wholly

      Wholly; entirely; completely; totally.

      • She was sitting all alone. It suddenly went all quiet. I'm all done, Mommy! I did it all by myself.
      • 'Tis mystery all: th'Immortal dies
      • The parson, all unaware, dully pursued his calling, perched above the exquisite derision of their glances.

    7. Apiece

      Apiece; each.

      • The score was 30 all when the rain delay started.

    8. So much

      So much; used with "the" and a comparative.

      • Don't want to go? All the better since I lost the tickets.
      • If he leave the company, I'll have to work all the harder.

    9. Even

      Even; just.

      • All as his straying flock he fed.
      • A damsel lay deploring / All on a rock reclined.

    10. A quotative particle, compare like.

      • She was all, “Whatever.”

    11. Everything that one is capable of.

      • She gave her all, and collapsed at the finish line.

    12. The totality of one's possessions.

      • she therefore ordered Jenny to pack up her alls and begone, for that she was determined she should not sleep that night within her walls. […] I packed up my little all as well as I could, and went off.

    13. Everything in general

      Everything in general; all that matters.

      • I will die fighting for my people, because my people are all.
      • All are one and one is all.

    14. Although.

      • And those two froward sisters, their faire loves, / Came with them eke, all they were wondrous loth.

    15. All gone

      All gone; dead.

      • The butter is all.

    16. Initialism of anterolateral ligament.

    17. Initialism of acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

      • In children, leukemia was most commonly ALL—lymphoblastic leukemia—and was almost always swiftly lethal.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for all. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA