Definition of ALL

all

Meanings

Plural: alls

Adjective

  • 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"

Adjective Satellite

  • completely given to or absorbed by
    • "became all attention"

Adverb

  • to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly')
    • "a totally new situation"
    • "the directions were all wrong"

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).
  • Throughout the whole of (a stated period of time; generally used with units of a day or longer).
  • Only; alone; nothing but.
  • Any.

Pron

  • Everything.
  • Everyone.
  • The only thing(s).
  • 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.)

Adv

  • Wholly; entirely; completely; totally.
  • Apiece; each.
  • So much.
  • Even; just.
  • A quotative particle, compare like.

Noun

  • Everything that one is capable of.
  • The totality of one's possessions.
  • Everything in general; all that matters.

Conj

  • Although.

Adj

  • All gone; dead.

Origin / 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- (“beyond, other”). Cognate with West Frisian al (“all”), Dutch al (“all”), Scots a' (“all”), German all (“all”), Swedish all (“all”), Norwegian all (“all”), Icelandic allur (“all”), Welsh holl (“all”), Irish uile (“all”), Lithuanian aliái (“all, each, every”).
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).

Antonyms

no, partly, some

Scrabble Score: 3

all is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
all is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
all is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 5

all is a valid Words With Friends word