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UK
/hˈəʊl/
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[ US /ˈhoʊɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈhoʊɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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(of siblings) having the same parents
whole brothers and sisters - not injured or harmed
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including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete
a whole wardrobe for the tropics
a whole week
gave his whole attention
a whole loaf of bread
the baby cried the whole trip home
the whole hog -
exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health
hale and hearty
a whole person again
whole in mind and body -
acting together as a single undiversified whole
a solid voting bloc
NOUN
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all of something including all its component elements or parts
Europe considered as a whole
the whole of American literature -
an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity
the team is a unit
how big is that part compared to the whole?
ADVERB
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to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly')
he was wholly convinced
the directions were all wrong
she felt right at home
it was not altogether her fault
an altogether new approach
he fell right into the trap
entirely satisfied with the meal
a whole new idea
it was completely different from what we expected
a totally new situation
was completely at fault
How To Use whole In A Sentence
- But then on the other hand, the whole cosmos or universe is based on this love or compassion.
- So spake he, and Athene was mightily angered at heart, and chid Odysseus in wrathful words: Odysseus, thou hast no more steadfast might nor any prowess, as when for nine whole years continually thou didst battle with the Trojans for high born Helen, of the white arms, and many men thou slewest in terrible warfare, and by thy device the wide-wayed city of Priam was taken. Book XXII
- Regardless of the outcome of the trial, the whole episode has been a huge embarrassment to English football.
- She also lent me a couple of Ben Elton books which were good, but not as good for relaxing as they have a whole dark seedy side.
- And if you can develop a machine to look for the needle in the haystack and what you come out with from having the machine sift through the haystack is a box of straw, where maybe the needle's in there and maybe a few bonus needles, then that's a whole lot better than having humans try to sift through a haystack. Wired Top Stories
- When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed. John Green
- If we got into Ceram (and got out again), the doctor would reduce the whole affair to a few tables of anthropological measurements, a few more hampers of birds, beasts, and native rubbish in the hold, and a score of paragraphs couched in the evaporated, millimetric terms of science. The Spinner's Book of Fiction
- It's got the whole indie-hillbilly thing going, with lots of mandolins and footstomping and fuzzy guitars etc but it's all just a little flat.
- Also, thankfully, Neil Diamond's Cherry Cherry Christmas includes a version of "The Chanukah Song" that should give that mensch Adam Sandler a whole lot of nachas. David Wild: The Perfect Semitic Storm: Five Reasons Everybody Should Buy the New Christmas Albums by Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan And Barry Manilow This Season
- He expressed his racial hatred for everyone, especially OBama making veiled death threats, spoke of other dangerous topics etc … and then offered to sell me a mosser rifle as he was buying a a whole shippment of them. Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
