full

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See also: full-, fúll, and -full

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: fo͝ol, IPA(key): /fʊl/, [fʊɫ]
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  • Rhymes: -ʊl

Etymology 1

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From Middle English full, from Old English full (“full”), from Proto-Germanic *fullaz (“full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”).

Germanic cognates include West Frisian fol, Low German vull, Dutch vol, German voll, Danish fuld, and Norwegian and Swedish full (the latter three via Old Norse). Proto-Indo-European cognates include English plenty (via Latin, compare plēnus), Welsh llawn, Russian по́лный (pólnyj), Lithuanian pilnas, Persian پر (por), Sanskrit पूर्ण (pūrṇa). See also fele.

Adjective

full (comparative fuller, superlative fullest)

  1. Containing the maximum possible amount of that which can fit in the space available.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
    The jugs were full to the point of overflowing.
  2. Complete; with nothing omitted.
    • 2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:
      Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. […] A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.
    Our book gives full treatment to the subject of angling.
  3. Total, entire.
    She had tattoos the full length of her arms.   He was prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
  4. (informal) Having eaten to satisfaction, having a "full" stomach; replete.
    "I'm full," he said, pushing back from the table.
  5. (informal, with of) Replete, abounding with.
    This movie doesn't make sense; it's full of plot holes.
    I prefer my pizzas full of toppings.
  6. (of physical features) Plump, round.
    full lips; a full face; a full figure
  7. Of a garment, of a size that is ample, wide, or having ample folds or pleats to be comfortable.
    a full pleated skirt;   She needed her full clothing during her pregnancy.
  8. Having depth and body; rich.
    a full singing voice
  9. (obsolete) Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.
    • (Can we date this quote by Francis Bacon and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Reading maketh a full man.
  10. Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it.
    She's full of her latest project.
    • (Can we date this quote by John Locke and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Everyone is full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak constitutions.
  11. Filled with emotions.
    • (Can we date this quote by Lowell and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      The heart is so full that a drop overfills it.
  12. (obsolete) Impregnated; made pregnant.
    • (Can we date this quote by Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Ilia, the fair, […] full of Mars.
  13. (poker, postnominal) Said of the three cards of the same rank in a full house.
    Nines full of aces = three nines and two aces (999AA).
    I'll beat him with my kings full! = three kings and two unspecified cards of the same rank.
  14. (Australia) Drunk, intoxicated.
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  • → Gulf Arabic: فُل (ful)
Translations
having depth and body
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Adverb

full (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Fully; quite; very; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.
    • c. 1610-11 William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii[1]:
      Prospero:
      I have done nothing but in care of thee,
      Of thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, who
      Art ignorant of what thou art; naught knowing
      Of whence I am, nor that I am more better
      Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell,
      And thy no greater father.
    • (Can we date this quote by Joseph Addison and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      […] full in the centre of the sacred wood
    • 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act IV, Scene I, verse 112
      You know full well what makes me look so pale.
    • (Can we date this quote?), Dante Gabriel Rosetti, William Blake, lines 9-12
      This cupboard […] / this other one, / His true wife's charge, full oft to their abode / Yielded for daily bread the martyr's stone,
    • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, IX
      It is full strange to him who hears and feels, / When wandering there in some deserted street, / The booming and the jar of ponderous wheels, […]
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      Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, […].
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Etymology 2

From Middle English fulle, fylle, fille, from Old English fyllu, fyllo (“fullness, fill, plenty”), from Proto-Germanic *fullį̄, *fulnō (“fullness, filling, overflow”), from Proto-Indo-European *plūno-, *plno- (“full”), from *pelh₁-, *pleh₁- (“to fill; full”). Cognate with German Fülle (“fullness, fill”), Icelandic fylli (“fulness, fill”). More at fill.

Noun

full (plural fulls)

  1. Utmost measure or extent; highest state or degree; the state, position, or moment of fullness; fill.
    • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      The swan's-down feather, / That stands upon the swell at full of tide.
    • (Can we date this quote by Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Sicilian tortures and the brazen bull, / Are emblems, rather than express the full / Of what he feels.
    I was fed to the full.
    • 1911, Berthold Auerbach, Bayard Taylor, The villa on the Rhine:
      […] he had tasted their food, and found it so palatable that he had eaten his full before he knew it.
    • 2008, Jay Cassell, The Gigantic Book Of Hunting Stories:
      Early next morning we were over at the elk carcass, and, as we expected, found that the bear had eaten his full at it during the night.
    • 2010, C. E. Morgan, All the Living: A Novel:
      When he had eaten his full, they set to work again.
  2. (of the moon) The phase of the moon when it is entire face is illuminated, full moon.
    • a. 1622, Francis Bacon, Natural History, in The works of Francis Bacon, 1765, page 322
      It is like, that the brain of man waxeth moister and fuller upon the full of the moon: [...]
    • a. 1656, Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (editor), Works, Volume VII: Practical Works, Revised edition, 1808 page 219,
      This earthly moon, the Church, hath her fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses, while the shadow of this sinful mass hides her beauty from the world.
  3. (freestyle skiing) An aerialist maneuver consisting of a backflip in conjunction and simultaneous with a complete twist.
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Translations
phase of the moon — see full moon

Verb

full (third-person singular simple present fulls, present participle fulling, simple past and past participle fulled)

  1. (of the moon) To become full or wholly illuminated.
    • 1888 September 20, "The Harvest Moon," New York Times (retrieved 10 April 2013):
      The September moon fulls on the 20th at 24 minutes past midnight, and is called the harvest moon.
    • 1905, Annie Fellows Johnston, The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation, ch. 4:
      "By the black cave of Atropos, when the moon fulls, keep thy tryst!"
    • 1918, Kate Douglas Wiggin, The Story Of Waitstill Baxter, ch. 29:
      "The moon fulls to-night, don't it?"

Etymology 3

From Middle English fullen, fulwen, from Old English fullian, fulwian (“to baptise”), from Proto-Germanic *fullawīhōną (“to fully consecrate”), from *fulla- (“full-”) + *wīhōną (“to hallow, consecrate, make holy”). Compare Old English fulluht, fulwiht (“baptism”).

Verb

full (third-person singular simple present fulls, present participle fulling, simple past and past participle fulled)

  1. (transitive) To baptise.
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to baptise — see baptise

Etymology 4

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French fuller, fouler (“to tread, to stamp, to full”), from Medieval Latin fullare, from Latin fullo (“a fuller”).

Verb

full (third-person singular simple present fulls, present participle fulling, simple past and past participle fulled)

  1. To make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing, to waulk, walk
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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin folium (“leaf”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yom (“leaf”), from *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”). Compare French feuille, Spanish hoja, Italian foglio, Italian foglia (the latter from Latin folia, plural of folium). Doublet of the borrowing foli.

Pronunciation

Noun

full m (plural fulls)

  1. sheet of paper

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French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English full.

Adjective

full (plural fulls)

  1. (Quebec) full
  2. (Quebec) overflowing, packed, crowded

Adverb

full

  1. (Quebec) very, really
    C’est full poche, ça ! ― That really sucks!

Etymology 2

From English full house.

Noun

full m (plural fulls)

  1. (poker) full house

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Italian

Etymology

From English full house.

Noun

full m (uncountable)

  1. (card games, poker) full house, boat

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse fullr, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós. Cognates include Danish fuld, Swedish full, Icelandic fullur, German voll, Dutch vol, English full, Gothic 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐌻𐍃 (fulls), Lithuanian pilnas, Old Church Slavonic плънъ (plŭnŭ), Latin plēnus, Ancient Greek πλήρης (plḗrēs) and πλέως (pléōs), Old Irish lán, and Sanskrit पूर्ण (pūrṇa).

Pronunciation

Adjective

full (neuter singular fullt, definite singular and plural fulle, comparative fullere, indefinite superlative fullest, definite superlative fulleste)

  1. full (containing the maximum possible amount)
  2. drunk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse fullr, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós. Cognates include Danish fuld, Swedish full, Icelandic fullur, German voll, Dutch vol, English full, Gothic 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐌻𐍃 (fulls), Lithuanian pilnas, Old Church Slavonic плънъ (plŭnŭ), Latin plēnus, Ancient Greek πλήρης (plḗrēs) and πλέως (pléōs), Old Irish lán, and Sanskrit पूर्ण (pūrṇa).

Pronunciation

Adjective

full (neuter singular fullt, definite singular and plural fulle, comparative fullare, indefinite superlative fullast, definite superlative fullaste)

  1. full (containing the maximum possible amount)
    Glaset er fullt. ― The glass is full.
  2. drunk
    Ho drakk seg full på raudvin. ― She got drunk on red wine.
  3. complete, total
    Han har full kontroll. ― He is in total control.

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Old English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”), from *pleh₁- (“to fill”).

Germanic cognates include Old Frisian ful, Old Saxon ful, full, Old High German foll, Old Norse fullr, and Gothic 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐌻𐍃 (fulls).

Indo-European cognates include Old Church Slavonic плънъ (plŭnŭ), Latin plēnus, Ancient Greek πλήρης (plḗrēs) and πλέως (pléōs), Old Irish lán, and Sanskrit पूर्ण (pūrṇa).

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Adjective

full

  1. full, filled, complete, entire
Declension
Declension of full — Strong
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative full full full
Accusative fulne fulle full
Genitive fulles fulre fulles
Dative fullum fulre fullum
Instrumental fulle fulre fulle
Plural Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative fulle fulla, fulle full
Accusative fulle fulla, fulle full
Genitive fulra fulra fulra
Dative fullum fullum fullum
Instrumental fullum fullum fullum
Declension of full — Weak
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative fulla fulle fulle
Accusative fullan fullan fulle
Genitive fullan fullan fullan
Dative fullan fullan fullan
Instrumental fullan fullan fullan
Plural Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative fullan fullan fullan
Accusative fullan fullan fullan
Genitive fulra, fullena fulra, fullena fulra, fullena
Dative fullum fullum fullum
Instrumental fullum fullum fullum
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Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *fullą (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pēl(w)- (“a kind of vessel”). Akin to Old Saxon full (“beaker”), Old Norse full (“beaker”).

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Noun

full n

  1. a beaker
  2. a cup, especially one with liquor in it
Declension
Declension of full (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative full full
accusative full full
genitive fulles fulla
dative fulle fullum

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse fullr, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós

Pronunciation

Adjective

full

  1. full (containing the maximum possible amount)
  2. drunk, intoxicated
    Synonyms: berusad, dragen, drucken, packad, plakat, påverkad, rund under fötterna

Declension

Inflection of full
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular full fullare fullast
Neuter singular fullt fullare fullast
Plural fulla fullare fullast
Masculine plural3 fulle fullare fullast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 fulle fullare fullaste
All fulla fullare fullaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic

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