all

• al (obsolete)

From Middle English all, from Old English eall (“all, every, entire, whole, universal”), from Proto-Germanic *allaz (“all, whole, every”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“all”). 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 oll (“all”), Irish uile (“all”), Lithuanian aliái (“all, each, every”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɔːl/
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  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ɔl/
  • (cot–caught merger, Northern Cities Vowel Shift) IPA^(key): /ɑl/, [ɑɫ]

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• Rhymes: -ɔːl
• Homophone: awl

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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 originally grass.  All my friends like classical music.

   • 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619:

     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.

   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     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.

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.

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

   I’ve been working on this all year.

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

3. (obsolete) Any.
   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     without all remedy

4. Only; alone; nothing but.

   He's all talk; he never puts his ideas into practice.

   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     I was born to speak all mirth and no matter.

• given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow

all

1. Everything.

   some gave all they had;  she knows all and sees all;  Those who think they know it all are annoying to those of us who do.

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 3, in The Celebrity:

     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.

2. Everyone.

   A good time was had by all.

   We all enjoyed the movie.

3. (chiefly Southern US, Midland US, Scotland, Northern Ireland) 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, Football's Best Short Stories (ed. Paul D. Staudohar), 107:

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

   • 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?"

   • 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."

all (not comparable)

1. (degree) Intensifier.

   It suddenly went all quiet.

   She was all, “Whatever.”

2. (poetic) Entirely.
   • 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 909267115:

     'Tis mystery all: th'Immortal dies

3. Apiece; each.

   The score was 30 all when the rain delay started.

4. (degree) So much.

   Don't want to go? All the better since I lost the tickets.

5. (obsolete, poetic) Even; just.
   • 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender, London: Hugh Singleton, OCLC 932885060:

     All as his straying flock he fed.

   • 1715, John Gay, What D’ye Call It?, London: Bernard Lintott, OCLC 938412196:

     A damsel lay deploring / All on a rock reclined.

• completely

all (countable and uncountable, plural alls)

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

   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. […] I packed up my little all as well as I could, and went off.

all

1. (obsolete) Although.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, volume 2, London: Ponsonbie, OCLC 243035665:

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

all

1. (Pennsylvania, dialectal) All gone; dead.

   The butter is all.

• allhood
• allness

• LAL, Lal, Lal.

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂elu- ‘bitter’. Compare Old English ealu (“ale”), Latin alum (“comfrey”), alūta (“tawed leather”), Polish zjełczały (Eastern) jełki, iłki (“rancid”), Ancient Greek ἀλύδοιμος (alúdoimos, “bitter”).

all m (feminine alle)

1. of reddish colour

• IPA^(key): /ˈalː/

all

1. other

• gwezhall

From Old Occitan (compare Occitan alh), from Latin allium (compare French ail, Spanish ajo).

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈaʎ/
• Rhymes: -aʎ

all m (plural alls)

1. garlic

From Proto-Finnic *ala.

all

1. under, below (Governs the genitive)

• all-
• alla

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

• IPA^(key): /al/

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• Rhymes: -al

all (not comparable)

1. all

   Alle Menschen sind gleich.

   All people are equal.

   Du musst doch nicht allen Unsinn nachmachen, den du hörst!

   You needn't reproduce all nonsense that you hear!

   • 1843, Karl Ludwig Kannegießer (translation from Italian into German), Die göttliche Komödie des Dante Alighieri, 4th edition, 1st part, Leipzig, p. 84:

     ... / Nachdem, von Wuth und Grausamkeit entbronnen, / Der Weiberschwarm die Männer all erschlug.

2. every (in time intervals, with plural noun)

   Wir treffen uns alle zwei Wochen.

   We meet up every two weeks.

• The bare form all is used with articles and pronouns, which it precedes (as in English). For instance: all die Sachen (“all the things”); all dies[es] Gerede (“all this chitchat”); all meine Freunde (“all my friends”). Colloquial German often uses the adjective ganz instead: die ganzen Sachen; dies[es] ganze Gerede; meine ganzen Freunde.

• all zu
• alle, alles (indefinite pronouns)
• alle (adverb)
• aller Enden
• allerhand
• allerorten
• allerorts
• allerseit
• allerseits
• allerwege
• allerwegen
• allerwegs
• allerweil
• Allmacht
• allseits

• all in Duden online

all

1. Romanization of 𐌰𐌻𐌻

Akin to Finnish alla.

all

1. under

• IPA^(key): /al/, [ɑl]
• Rhymes: -ɑl

all

1. (with uncountable or plural nouns) all
2. (with countable singular nouns) every; each

   Et muss een net mat all Virschlag eens sinn.

   One needn’t agree to every proposition.

• The word is usually uninflected, except for the dative plural, which becomes allen.

• (every, each): jidder, jiddwer

• alles

• al

From Old English eall, from Proto-Germanic *allaz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈal/

all

1. all (entirely, completely)

all

1. all, every

• alles

• Scots: a', aw
• English: all
• Yola: aul

From Old Norse allr.

all (neuter singular alt, plural alle)

1. all

• allehelgensdag
• allmektig
• allvitende

• “all” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse allr. Akin to English all.

• IPA^(key): /ɑlː/

all (neuter singular alt, plural alle)

1. all

• allehelgensdag
• allmektig
• allvitande

• “all” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *allaz, whence also Old Saxon al, Old High German al, Old Norse allr.

• IPA^(key): /all/

all

1. (Anglian) all

all

1. (Anglian) fully

Compare German all, Dutch al, English all.

all

1. all

• alliebber

From Old Swedish alder, from Old Norse allr, from Proto-Germanic *allaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-.

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all (neuter allt, masculine alle, plural alla)

1. all

   Drack du upp all mjölk?

   Did you drink all the milk?

All (with inflections) is used with 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”).

• varje
• allihop

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /aɬ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /aːɬ/, /aɬ/

all

1. Soft mutation of gall.