all

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[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology

From Middle English, from Old English eall (“all, every, entire, whole, universal”), from Proto-Germanic *allaz, *alnaz (“all, whole, every”), from Proto-Indo-European *al- (“all”). Cognate with West Frisian al (“all”), Dutch al (“all”), German all (“all”), Swedish all (“all”), Icelandic allur (“all”), Welsh oll (“all”), Irish uile (“all”), Lithuanian aliái (“all, each, every”).

[edit] Adverb

all (not comparable)

  1. (degree) intensifier.
    You’ve got it all wrong.
    She was all, “Whatever.”
  2. Apiece; each.
    The score was 30 all when the rain delay started.
  3. (degree) So much.
    Don't want to go? All the better since I lost the tickets.

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intensifier
apiece
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[edit] Determiner

all

  1. 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 at the scorer’s table.
    All flesh is grass.
    All my friends like classical music.
  2. 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. (= The store is open throughout the whole of the day and the whole of the night.)
    I’ve been working on this all year. (= I've been working from the beginning of the year until now.)
  3. Everyone.
    All gave some of what they had.
  4. Everything.
    Some gave all they had.

[edit] Translations

every individual of the given class
throughout the whole of (a stated period of time)
everyone — see everyone
everything — see everything
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[edit] Noun

all (countable and uncountable; plural alls)

  1. (with a possessive pronoun) Everything possible.
    She gave her all, and collapsed at the finish line.
  2. (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.

[edit] Translations

everything possible

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Terms etymologically related to all

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[edit] Breton

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all

  1. other

[edit] Catalan

[edit] Etymology

From Latin allium.

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all m. (plural alls)

  1. garlic

[edit] Estonian

[edit] Etymology

From the same Uralic root *ala as Finnish ala- and Hungarian alatt.

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all

  1. under

[edit] German

[edit] Etymology

From Middle High German al, from Old High German al, from Proto-Germanic *allaz.

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all (not comparable)

  1. all
  2. every

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all

  1. Short form of alles. Only used in the combination all das (“all that”).

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all

  1. Romanization of 𐌰𐌻𐌻

[edit] Swedish

[edit] Etymology

From Old Norse allr, from Proto-Germanic *allaz.

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[edit] Pronoun

all (neuter allt, plural alla)

  1. all
    Drack du upp all mjölk?
    Did you drink all the milk?

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[edit] Usage notes

All (with inflections) is used about mass nouns. The corresponding for nouns with ordinary plural is alla.

A masculine-looking form (alle) is virtually only retained in the fixed expressions alle man and allesamman (“everyone”).

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