adj
Meaning 1
All gone; dead.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Pennsylvania, dialectal
Examples
- The butter is all.
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adj
All gone; dead.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Pennsylvania, dialectal
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adv
Wholly; entirely; completely; totally.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: childish, emphatic, intensifier, not-comparable, sometimes
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adv
Apiece; each.
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Usage: not-comparable
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adv
So much; used with "the" and a comparative.
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Usage: not-comparable
Qualifier: degree
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adv
Even; just.
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Usage: not-comparable, obsolete, poetic
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adv
A quotative particle, compare like.
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Usage: not-comparable
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conj
Although.
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Usage: obsolete
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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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det
Throughout the whole of (a stated period of time; generally used with units of a day or longer).
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det
Only; alone; nothing but.
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det
Any.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
Everything that one is capable of.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The totality of one's possessions.
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Usage: countable
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noun
Everything in general; all that matters.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Initialism of anterolateral ligament.
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Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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noun
Initialism of acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
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Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Topics: hematology, medicine, oncology, sciences
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pron
Everything.
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pron
Everyone.
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pron
The only thing(s).
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pron
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.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: India, Northern-Ireland, Scotland, Southern-US
Qualifier: South Midland US
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adjective satellite
completely given to or absorbed by
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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adverb
to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly')
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: wholly, entirely, completely, totally, altogether, whole
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History
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).
Across languages
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