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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Being or representing the entire or total number, amount, or quantity: All the windows are open. Deal all the cards. See Synonyms at whole.
2. adj. Constituting, being, or representing the total extent or the whole: all Christendom.
3. adj. Being the utmost possible of: argued the case in all seriousness.
4. adj. Every: got into all manner of trouble.
5. adj. Any whatsoever: beyond all doubt.
6. adj. Pennsylvania Finished; used up: The apples are all. See Regional Note at gum band.
7. adj. Informal Being more than one: Who all came to the party? See Regional Note at you-all.
8. n. The whole of one's fortune, resources, or energy; everything one has: The brave defenders gave their all.
9. pro. The entire or total number, amount, or quantity; totality: All of us are sick. All that I have is yours.
10. pro. Everyone; everything: justice for all.
11. adv. Wholly; completely: a room painted all white; directions that were all wrong.
12. adv. Each; apiece: a score of five all.
13. adv. So much: I am all the better for that experience.
14. idiom. all along From the beginning; throughout: saw through the disguise all along.
15. idiom. all but Nearly; almost: all but crying with relief.
16. idiom. all in Tired; exhausted.
17. idiom. all in all Everything being taken into account: All in all, the criticism seemed fair.
18. idiom. all of Informal Not more than: a conversation that took all of five minutes.
19. idiom. all one Of no difference; immaterial: Whether we go out or stay in, it's all one to me.
20. idiom. all out With all one's strength, ability, or resources.
21. idiom. all that Informal To the degree expected.
22. idiom. all there Mentally unimpaired or competent.
23. idiom. all the same Notwithstanding; nevertheless.
24. idiom. all the same Of no difference, immaterial.
25. idiom. all told With everything considered; in all: All told, we won 100 games.
26. idiom. and all And other things of the same type: "The only thing they seemed to have in common was their cowboy gear, ten-gallon hats and all” ( Edward Chen).
27. idiom. at all In any way: unable to walk at all.
28. idiom. at all To any extent; whatever: not at all sorry.
29. idiom. be all Informal To say or utter. Used chiefly in verbal narration: He's all, "What did you do that for?”
30. idiom. in all Considering everything; all together: In all, it rained for two hours. I bought four hats, in all.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. The whole quantity of, with reference to substance, extent, duration, amount, or degree: with a noun in the singular, chiefly such nouns (proper names, names of substances, abstract nouns—any whole or any part regarded in itself as a whole) as from their meaning or particular use do not in such use admit of a plural: as, all Europe; all Homer; all flesh; all control; all history.
2. The whole number of, with reference to individuals or particulars, taken collectively: with a noun in the plural: as, all men; all nations; all metals; all hopes; all sciences; all days. [All in logic is the sign of a distributed term in an affirmative proposition: as, all men are mortal. This use of all, in place of every, is a result of Boëthius's use of omnis as a translation of the πᾶς of Aristotle.]
3. Every: chiefly with kind, sort, manner, and formerly with thing.
4. Any; any whatever: after a preposition or verb implying negation or exclusion: as, beyond all controversy; out of all question; he was free from all thought of danger.
5. Only; alone.
6. When joined to nouns accompanied by a definitive (the definite article, a possessive or demonstrative pronoun, etc.), all precedes the latter whether with a singular or plural noun, or else follows the noun if it is plural; as, all my labor; all his goods; all this time; all these things; all the men agreed to this, or, the men all agreed to this. In the phrases all day, all night, all summer, all winter, all the year, all the time, etc., the noun is an adverbial accusative. In the first four the article is usually omitted.
7. When joined to a personal or relative pronoun in the plural, all may precede, but now usually follows, the pronoun.
8. The alternative construction is all of us, all of them, etc. (see II., 2); or the two constructions may stand together.
9. The adjective all, with a singular or plural noun, is often separated from its subject, especially by the verb be (expressed, or in the present participle often omitted), and, being thus apparently a part of the predicate, assumes a transitional position, and may equally well be regarded as an adverb, meaning altogether, wholly: as, the house was all dark; he was all ears; the poor horse was all skin and bones; the papers were all in confusion; it was all a mistake; it is all gone.
10. The whole quantity or amount; the whole; the aggregate; the total: in a singular sense.
11. The whole number; every individual or particular, taken collectively; especially, all men or all people: in a plural sense.
12. All, in either of the preceding uses, is often followed by a limiting phrase with of.
13. Everything: as, is that all? that is all.
14. Altogether; wholly.
15. In every way; altogether; wholly.
16. In any degree; in any degree whatever; in the least degree; for any reason; on any consideration: as, I was surprised at his coming at all.
17. In any way; to any extent; of any kind or character: in negative, interrogative, or conditional clauses (compare I., 4): as, he was not at all disturbed; did you hear anything at all? if you hear anything at all, let me know; no offense at all.
18. Notwithstanding; in spite of (the thing or fact mentioned): followed by an object noun or pronoun or an object clause with that, which is often omitted: as, for all that, the fact remains the same; you may do so for all (that) I care, or for all me. See for.
19. In whole: as, in part or in all.
20. etc., in certain games, means that all (or merely both) the players or sides have two, three, etc., points.
21. n. A whole; an entirety; a totality of things or qualities. The All is used for the universe.
22. n. One's whole interest, concern, or property: usually with a possessive pronoun: as, she has given her all.
23. Wholly; entirely; completely; altogether; quite. In this use common with adverbs of degree, especially too: as, he arrived all too late.
24. [From the frequent Middle English use of all in this sense before verbs with the prefix to- (see to-, to-break, to-cut, to-tear, etc.), that prefix, when no longer felt as such, came to be attached to the adverb, all to or alto being regarded as an adverbial phrase or word, and sometimes improperly used, in later English, with verbs having originally no claim to the prefix.
25. Even; just: at first emphatic or intensive. With prepositional phrases of place or time, in later use, particularly in ballad poetry, little more than merely expletive or pleonastic: as, all in the month of May; all in the morning tide.
26. With conjunctions if and though, in conditional and concessive clauses: If all, though all, or reversely, all if, all though, even if, even though. These forms are obsolete, except the last, which is now written as one word, although (which see).
27. [When the verb in such clauses, according to a common subjunctive construction, was placed before the subject, the conjunction if or though might be omitted, leaving all as an apparent conjunction, in the sense of even if, although; especially in the formula al be, as al be it, al be it that, al be that (now albe, albeit, which see).
28. With conjunction as: All as. Just when; when; as.
29. As if.
30. Only; exclusively.
31. From end to end; in bookbinding, (sewed) in such a manner that the thread passes from end to end of each section, At full length.
32. too close to the wind: said of a vessel so brought up into the wind that the sails shake.
33. entirely; completely; quite.
34. Used especially with drink (see carouse).
35. Thoroughly; entirely: as, “Dombey and Son” is Dickens all over.
36. Indisposed; generally ill; having an all-overish feeling.
37. All past; entirely ceased: as, that is all over.
38. to all that extent; so much: as, all the better; all the fitter; all the sooner. See the.
39. [All, in composition, sometimes forms a true compound, as in almighty, already, always, algates, but usually stands, with or sometimes without a hyphen, in loose combination, retaining a syntactic relation, either as adjective, as in All-hallows, All-saints, allspice; as noun, either in genitive plural, as in all-father, or in accusative as direct object, as in all-giver, all-seer, all-heal, particularly with present participles having all as object (though originally in many cases all was adverbial), as in all-healing, all-seeing, all-pervading, etc.; or as adverb, either with a noun (in the transitional construction mentioned under all, a., I., at end), as in all-bone, all-mouth, all-rail, all-wool, or with almost any adjective that admits of rhetorical sweep, as in all-perfect, all-powerful, all-wise, all-glorious, all-important.]

Wiktionary

1. adv. degree intensifier.
2. adv. Apiece; each.
3. adv. degree So much.
4. Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or uncountable).
5. Throughout the whole of (a stated period of time; generally used with units of a day or longer).
6. Everyone.
7. Everything.
8. n. with a possessive pronoun Everything possible.
9. n. countable The totality of one's possessions.
10. conj. obsolete although

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. The whole quantity, extent, duration, amount, quality, or degree of; the whole; the whole number of; any whatever; every.
2. adj. obsolete Any.
3. adj. Only; alone; nothing but.
4. adv. Wholly; completely; altogether; entirely; quite; very.
5. adv. Obs. or Poet. Even; just. (Often a mere intensive adjunct.)
6. n. The whole number, quantity, or amount; the entire thing; everything included or concerned; the aggregate; the whole; totality; everything or every person.
7. conj. obsolete Although; albeit.

WordNet 3.0

1. adv. to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly')
2. adj. completely given to or absorbed by
3. adj. quantifier; used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class