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Whole   /hoʊl/   Listen
Whole

adjective
1.
Including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete.  "A whole wardrobe for the tropics" , "The whole hog" , "A whole week" , "The baby cried the whole trip home" , "A whole loaf of bread"  Antonym: fractional.
2.
(of siblings) having the same parents.  Antonym: half.
3.
Not injured.  Synonyms: unharmed, unhurt, unscathed.
4.
Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.  Synonym: hale.  "Whole in mind and body" , "A whole person again"
5.
Acting together as a single undiversified whole.  Synonyms: solid, unanimous.
noun
1.
All of something including all its component elements or parts.  "The whole of American literature"
2.
An assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity.  Synonym: unit.  "The team is a unit"
adverb
1.
To a complete degree or to the full or entire extent ('whole' is often used informally for 'wholly').  Synonyms: all, altogether, completely, entirely, totally, wholly.  "Entirely satisfied with the meal" , "It was completely different from what we expected" , "Was completely at fault" , "A totally new situation" , "The directions were all wrong" , "It was not altogether her fault" , "An altogether new approach" , "A whole new idea"  Antonym: partly.



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"Whole" Quotes from Famous Books



... morning till night we will shriek with the whole width of our gullets, "Brekekekex, ...
— The Eleven Comedies - Vol. I • Aristophanes et al

... the representative on the spindle side of the line of Simon de Montfort the Albigensian crusader. Joan was the daughter of Guy, John III.'s brother of the full blood, in whose favour the great county of Penthievre-Treguier, including the whole of the north coast of the duchy from the river of Morlaix to within a few miles of the Rance, had been dissociated from the demesne and reconstituted as an appanage.[1] The heiress of Penthievre thus ruled ...
— The History of England - From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) • T.F. Tout

... a quarter of an hour, half an hour, an hour. Romantin did not return. Then, suddenly, there was a dreadful noise on the stairs, a song shouted out in chorus by twenty mouths and a regular march like that of a Prussian regiment. The whole house was shaken by the steady tramp of feet. The door flew open, and a motley throng appeared—men and women in a row, holding one another arm in arm, in pairs, and kicking their heels on the ground, in proper time, advanced into the ...
— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. • Guy de Maupassant

... besides their married daughters. We stayed at the Vineyard Hotel in the immediate neighbourhood—a funny old-fashioned hostelry, standing in its own grounds, and not in the least like an hotel as we understand the word. There whole families seemed to reside for months, and very comfortable it was, if somewhat primitive, appearing to keep itself far apart from the rush of modern improvements, and allowing the world to go by it unheeded. Only half a mile away, at Rondebosch, was situated then, as now, on the ...
— South African Memories - Social, Warlike & Sporting From Diaries Written At The Time • Lady Sarah Wilson

... By the time the drama began the epic was become a religious storehouse, and the actual epic story represented not a fifth of the whole work, so that, with its simple language, it must have seemed, as a literary production, very wearisome to the minds that delighted in the artificial compounds and romantic episodes of the drama and lyric. But even to-day it is ...
— The Religions of India - Handbooks On The History Of Religions, Volume 1, Edited By Morris Jastrow • Edward Washburn Hopkins


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