English - Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɔːl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɔl/
• (cot–caught merger, Northern Cities Vowel Shift) IPA^(key): [ɑɫ]
• Rhymes: -ɔːl

English - Etymology

From Middle English, from Old English eall (“all, every, entire, whole, universal”), from Proto-Germanic *allaz (“all, whole, every”), from Proto-Indo-European *al- (“all”). Cognate with West Frisian al (“all”), Dutch al (“all”), German all (“all”), Swedish all (“all”), Icelandic allur (“all”), Welsh oll (“all”), Irish uile (“all”), Lithuanian aliái (“all, each, every”), Albanian lloj (“type, sort, variegated”).

English - Adverb

all (not comparable)

1. (degree) intensifier.

   You’ve got it all wrong.

   She was all, “Whatever.”

2. Apiece; each.

   The score was 30 all when the rain delay started.

   • 1878, Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Furl of fresh-leaved dogrose down

     His locks like all a ravel-rope’s-end,

     With hempen strands in spray

3. (degree) So much.

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

4. (dialect, Pennsylvania) All gone; dead.

   The butter is all.

5. (obsolete, poetic) even; just
   • Spenser

     All as his straying flock he fed.

   • Gay

     A damsel lay deploring / All on a rock reclined.

Synonyms

• completely

Translations

English - Determiner

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.

   • 1893, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate, chapterIII:

     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.

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. Everyone.

   A good time was had by all.

4. 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.

5. (obsolete) Any.
   • William Shakespeare (c.1564–1616)

     without all remedy

6. Only; alone; nothing but.

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

   • William Shakespeare (c.1564–1616)

     I was born to speak all mirth and no matter.

Translations

English - Noun

all (countable and uncountable, plural alls)

1. (with a possessive pronoun) Everything possible.

   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.

Translations

English - Conjunction

all

1. (obsolete) although
   • (Can we date this quote?) Spenser

     All they were wondrous loth.

Albanian - Etymology

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

Albanian - Adjective

all m (feminine alle)

1. of reddish colour

Breton - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈalː/

Breton - Adjective

all

1. other

Derived terms

• gwezhall

Catalan - Etymology

From Latin allium.

Catalan - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaʎ/
• Rhymes: -aʎ

Catalan - Noun

all m (plural alls)

1. garlic

Estonian - Etymology

From the same Uralic root *ala as Finnish ala- and Hungarian alatt.

Estonian - Postposition

all

1. under

Derived terms

• all-

German - Etymology

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

German - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al/

German - Adjective

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!

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

   Wir treffen uns alle zwei Wochen.

   We meet up every two weeks.

Usage notes

• 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 also uses the adjective ganz instead: die ganzen Sachen; dies[es] ganze Gerede; meine ganzen Freunde.

Declension

Derived terms

• all zu
• alle, alles (indefinite pronouns)
• alle (adverb)
• Allmacht

German - External Links

• all in Duden online

Gothic - Romanization

all

1. Romanization of

Luxembourgish - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑl/
• Rhymes: -ɑl

Luxembourgish - Pronoun

all

1. all
2. every, each

Synonyms

• (every, each): jidder, jiddwer

Swedish - Etymology

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

Swedish - Pronoun

all (neuter allt, plural alla)

1. all

   Drack du upp all mjölk?

   Did you drink all the milk?

Related terms

• varje
• allihop

Usage notes

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”).

Welsh - Pronunciation

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

Welsh - Verb

all

1. Soft mutation of gall.

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