Etymology

Clipping of EnglishCategory:Translingual terms derived from English#ALL AllarCategory:Translingual clippings#ALL.

Symbol

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1. (international standards) ISO 639-3Category:ISO 639-3 language code for Allar.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Allar terms

Alternative forms

• a' (alternative spelling)
• al (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#ALLCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#ALL all, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#ALLCategory:English terms derived from Old English#ALL eall, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#ALLCategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#ALL *all, from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#ALLCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#ALL *allaz, of uncertain origin^[1] but perhaps from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#ALL *h₂el- (“all”).

The dialectal sense “all gone” is a calque of GermanCategory:English terms calqued from German#ALLCategory:English terms derived from German#ALL alle. The use in who all, where all etc. also has equivalents in German (see alles).

Pronunciation

• (UK)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɔːl/, [oːɫ]Category:English 1-syllable words#ALLCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ALL, enPR: ôl

    • Audio (London):

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  • (MLE) IPA^(key): /u(ɫ)/Category:English 1-syllable words#ALLCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ALL
  • (Northumbria) IPA^(key): /aːl/, /aː/Category:English 1-syllable words#ALLCategory:English 1-syllable words#ALLCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ALL
• (Canada, US)
  • (General American, without the cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ɔl/, [ɔɫ]Category:English 1-syllable words#ALLCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ALL
  • (General American, cot–caught merger, dialects of Canada) IPA^(key): /ɑl/, [ɑɫ]Category:English 1-syllable words#ALLCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ALL

    • Audio (California):

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  • (Canada, dialects of the US) IPA^(key): /ɒl/, [ɒɫ]Category:English 1-syllable words#ALLCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ALL
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /oːl/, [oːɫ]Category:English 1-syllable words#ALLCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ALL
• Homophones: awl, I'll (some dialects)Category:English terms with homophones#ALL
• Rhymes: -ɔːlCategory:Rhymes:English/ɔːl#ALLCategory:Rhymes:English/ɔːl/1 syllable#ALL

Determiner

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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 for the footrace: we've arranged numbers for them all.Category:English terms with usage examples#ALL

   List all books of which you were the sole or co-author.Category:English terms with usage examples#ALL

   All flesh is originally grass.Category:English terms with usage examples#ALL

   All (the) three of my nephews adore classical music.Category:English terms with usage examples#ALL

   • 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection iv, page 298:

     Beautie alone is a ſoveraigne remedy againſt feare,griefe,and all melancholy fits; a charm,as Peter de la Seine and many other writers affirme,a banquet it ſelfe;he gives inſtance in diſcontented Menelaus that was ſo often freed by Helenas faire face: and ^hTully, 3 Tusc. cites Epicurus as a chiefe patron of this Tenent.

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   • 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:

     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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   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned, […] and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights.

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   • 2011 November 9, Susanne Gargiulo, “Emotional intelligence in the workplace”, in CNN‎:

     Now, Nielsen is sending all hotel employees through EI training to help them become more open and confident, understand their own limitations and fears, and to boost their self-worth and comfort in dealing with other people.

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   • 2019 March 6, Drachinifel, 25:58 from the start, in The Battle of Samar (Alternate History) - Bring on the Battleships!‎, archived from the original on 4 July 2022:

     On the one hand, we had a scenario where, effectively, the American admiral just went "You know what, all the destroyers attack", at which point they mowed through the Japanese destroyers like a Grim Reaper through a harvest of very, very dead gorn, especially with the Brooklyns in support.

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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.Category:English terms with usage examples#ALL

   (= through the whole of the day and the whole of the night.)

   I’ve been working on this all year.Category:English terms with usage examples#ALL

   (= from the beginning of the year until now.)

3. Only; alone; nothing but.

   He's all talk; he never puts his ideas into practice.Category:English terms with usage examples#ALL

   • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     I was born to speak all mirth and no matter.

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4. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#ALL) Any.
   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     without all remedy

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Pronoun

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2. Everything.

   Some gave all they had.

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   She knows all and sees all.

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   All of Jones’s maneuvers to trounce Kennedy.

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   All is not well at home lately.

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   Those who think they know it all are annoying to those of us who do.

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   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter III, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     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.

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4. Everyone.

   A good time was had by all (of you/us/them).

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   We all enjoyed the movie.

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   I've got three children, of whom all are studying medicine.

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   • 2012 October 9, Amy Hauser, Tom Hauser, chapter 7, in Marge Thompson, Frankie M. Leisering, editors, In His Grip … a Walk Through Breast Cancer‎, WestBow Press, →ISBN, page 39:

     Hey all, just a quick note as I am trying to do 46 things at once and slow down a touch all at once…

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5. The only thing(s).

   All that was left was a small pile of ash.Category:English terms with usage examples#ALL

   We ate potatoes and ziti .... that's all.Category:English terms with usage examples#ALL

7. (chiefly Southern USCategory:Southern US English#ALL, South Midland USCategory:Midland US English#ALL, Midland USCategory:Midland US English#ALL, ScotlandCategory:Scottish English#ALL, Northern IrelandCategory:Northern Irish English#ALL, IndiaCategory:Indian English#ALL) 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.)
   • 1904 October 10, Shea v. Nilima, [US] Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in 1905, Reports Containing the Cases Determined in All the Circuits from the Organization of the Courts, page 266:

     Q. Now, then, when you started to go to stake the claims, who all went along?

     A. I and Johan Peter Johansen, Otto Greiner, and Thorulf Kjelsberg.

   • 1998, Paul D. Staudohar, editor, Football's Best Short Stories‎, section 107:

     "I mean, you could have called us—collect, o'course—jes' to let us know how-all it's a-goin'."

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   • 2002, Richard Haddock, Arkalalah, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 73:

     "Where all did he go? What exactly was his job?" Gary shrugged and produced a weak laugh. "I reckon the Middle East. Ain't that where all the oil is?"

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   • 2011, Moni Mohsin, Tender Hooks, Random House India, →ISBN:

     "Do you ever ask me what I want to see? Or ask me about where all I've gone, who all I've met, what all I've done? Never. Not for one second. And why? Because you don't give two hoops about me."

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Adverb

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1. (intensifier, sometimes childishCategory:English childish terms#ALL) Wholly; entirely; completely; totally.

   She was sitting all alone.
   It suddenly went all quiet.
   I'm all done, Mommy! I did it all by myself.Category:English terms with usage examples#ALL

   • 1738, Charles Wesley, “And can it be that I should gain”, in John Wesley, editor, A Collection of Psalms and Hymns, Charlestown: Lewis Timothy, →OCLC:

     'Tis mystery all: th'Immortal dies

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   • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 127:

     The parson, all unaware, dully pursued his calling, perched above the exquisite derision of their glances.

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2. Apiece; each.

   The score was 30 all when the rain delay started.Category:English terms with usage examples#ALL

3. (degree) So much; used with "the" and a comparative.

   Don't want to go? All the better since I lost the tickets.Category:English terms with usage examples#ALL

   If he leave the company, I'll have to work all the harder.Category:English terms with usage examples#ALL

4. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#ALL, poeticCategory:English poetic terms#ALL) Even; just.
   • 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender, London: Hugh Singleton, →OCLC:

     All as his straying flock he fed.

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   • 1715, John Gay, What D’ye Call It?, London: Bernard Lintott, →OCLC:

     A damsel lay deploring / All on a rock reclined.

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5. A quotative particle, compare like.

   She was all, “Whatever.”Category:English terms with usage examples#ALL

Noun

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1. (with a possessive pronoun) Everything that one is capable of.

   She gave her all, and collapsed at the finish line.Category:English terms with usage examples#ALL

2. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#ALL) The totality of one's possessions.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
     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. […] I packed up my little all as well as I could, and went off.Category:English terms with quotations#ALL

3. Everything in general; all that matters.

   I will die fighting for my people, because my people are all.Category:English terms with usage examples#ALL

   • 1992, Bruce Coville, My Teacher Flunked the Planet:

     All are one and one is all.

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Conjunction

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1. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#ALL) Although.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, volume 2, London: Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     And those two froward sisters, their faire loves, / Came with them eke, all they were wondrous loth.

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