All
[ɔːl] or [ɔl]
Definition
(adj.) completely given to or absorbed by; 'became all attention' .
(adj.) quantifier; used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class; 'we sat up all night'; 'ate all the food'; 'all men are mortal'; 'all parties are welcome' .
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Definition
(a.) The whole quantity, extent, duration, amount, quality, or degree of; the whole; the whole number of; any whatever; every; as, all the wheat; all the land; all the year; all the strength; all happiness; all abundance; loss of all power; beyond all doubt; you will see us all (or all of us).
(a.) Any.
(a.) Only; alone; nothing but.
(adv.) Wholly; completely; altogether; entirely; quite; very; as, all bedewed; my friend is all for amusement.
(adv.) Even; just. (Often a mere intensive adjunct.)
(n.) The whole number, quantity, or amount; the entire thing; everything included or concerned; the aggregate; the whole; totality; everything or every person; as, our all is at stake.
(conj.) Although; albeit.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. The whole of, every one of, every part of.
ad. Altogether, entirely, completely, wholly, quite.
n. Whole, total, totality, aggregate, every thing.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Whole, complete, entire, total, every, integral, perfect, full
ANT:{[(preceding)]?}, Some, part
Editor: Pasquale
Examples
- Investigation of these cases, however, revealed invariably the purely fraudulent nature of all such offers, which were uniformly declined. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She had been all sweetness and kindness, always thankful, always gentle, even when Mrs. Clapp lost her own temper and pressed for the rent. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I believe that he would have come all the way had it not been that Dr. Ferrier, who lives near me, was going down by that very train. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The porter lit it again, and I asked if that was all the light the clerk sent. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- By all which acquirements, I should be a living treasure of knowledge and wisdom, and certainly become the oracle of the nation. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- I think that we have gathered all that we can. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I'm frank and open; considering all things, it was very kind of you to allude to the circumstance--very kind and polite. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- There was an absence of all lady-like restraint in her language and manner most painful to see. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But this does not mean that men will have become homeless and all adrift. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He knew how to blow any sort of bridge that you could name and he had blown them of all sizes and constructions. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It's all show with Minnie, about Martha. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- All Russia now is a huge experiment in that dictatorship (August, 1920). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Of the species which do change, only a few within the same country change at the same time; and all modifications are slowly effected. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- In all other respects Fosco, on that memorable day, was Fosco shrouded in total eclipse. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The reactions were all varied in various people, but they followed a few great laws, and intrinsically there was no difference. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- From these ends is extended the spindle of Necessity, on which all the revolutions turn. Plato. The Republic.
- All the troops you can quickly assemble should be brought. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Without heart, without interest, I could not play it at all. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- A struggle for existence inevitably follows from the high rate at which all organic beings tend to increase. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- I never had the feeling in the house before,' said Mrs Boffin; 'and I have been about it alone at all hours of the night. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Then I remembered all at once that I had not said my prayers that morning. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- As the glare of day mellowed into twilight, we looked down upon a picture which is celebrated all over the world. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- As to all the rest, he was humble and contrite, and I never knew him complain. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He was born in the tenth year of our marriage, just when I had given up all hope of being a father. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I passed to the altered days when I was so blest as to find friends in all around me, and to be beloved. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He only told me a little about his parents and grandparents, and almost all in answer to my questions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The animal was not there at all, only the heavy, broken beauty. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There was a cry and a rush to rescue, but the right hand which all this while had lain hidden in Moore's breast, reappearing, held out a pistol. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- You know, I'm a stranger here, so perhaps I'm not so quick at understanding what you mean as if I'd lived all my life at Milton. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
Editor: Pasquale