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Definition of 'all'English
Adverb
( -)
(degree) (intensifier).
- You’ve got it all wrong.
- She was all , “Whatever.”
Apiece; each.
- The score was 30 all when the rain delay started.
* 1878 , Gerard Manley Hopkins,
- His locks like all a ravel-rope’s-end,
- With hempen strands in spray
(degree) So much.
- Don't want to go? All the better since I lost the tickets.
(dialect|Pennsylvania) All gone; dead.
- The butter is all .
(obsolete|poetic) even; just
* Spenser
- All as his straying flock he fed.
* Gay
- A damsel lay deploring / All on a rock reclined.
Synonyms
* completely
Determiner
( en-det)
Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or uncountable).
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*:In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. In this way all respectable burgesses, down to fifty years ago, spent their evenings.
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|title= Mr. Pratt's Patients |chapter=1
|passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path
Throughout the whole of (a stated period of time; generally used with units of a day or longer).
: (= through the whole of the day and the whole of the night.)
: (= from the beginning of the year until now.)
Everyone.
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Everything.
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|title=( The Celebrity)|chapter=3
|passage=Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.}}
(lb) Any.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:without all remedy
Only; alone; nothing but.
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:I was born to speak all mirth and no matter.
Noun
(with a possessive pronoun) Everything possible.
- She gave her all , and collapsed at the finish line.
(countable) The totality of one's possessions.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, pp. 37-8:
- 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.
Derived terms
* a bit of all right
* after all
* all about
* all along
* all-American
* all and sundry
* all-around
* all around
* all at once
* All Blacks
* all but
* all clear
* all-comers
* all-day
* all-embracing
* all-encompassing
* all fingers and thumbs
* all-fire
* All Fools' Day
* all for
* All Hallows
* All Hallows' Day
* all hands on deck
* allheal
* all-important
( rel-mid4)
* all in
* all-in
* all in all
* all-in wrestling
* all-inclusive
* all-knowing
* all-night
* all-nighter
* all of a sudden
* all one
* all one's life's worth
* all or nothing
* all-out
* all over
* all-over
* all-overish
* all over the place
* all over with
* all-party
* all-powerful
* all-purpose
* all right
* all-round
* all-rounder
* All Saints' Day
( rel-mid4)
* allseed
* all-seeing
*
* allsorts
* All Souls' Day
* allspice
* all square
* all-star
* all systems go
* all that
* all the best
* all the more
* all the same
* all the way
* all-time
* all together
* all told
* all-too-familiar
* all-up
* all-up service
* all up with
* all very well
* all-weather
* and all
* and all that
( rel-mid4)
* at all
* be all ears
* be-all and end-all
* best of all
* bugger all
* catchall
* coveralls
* cure-all
* for all
* for good and all
* fuck all
* give one's all
* go all the way
* in all
* know-it-all
* most of all
* naff all
* not all there
* not at all
* on all fours
* once and for all
* overalls
* sod all
* when all is said and done
( rel-bottom)
See also
( top2)
* any
* each
* every
* everyone
( mid2)
* everything
* none
* some
*
( bottom)
Conjunction
( en-con)
(obsolete) although
* (rfdate) Spenser
- All they were wondrous loth.
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