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Definitions
- 1 Entire, undivided.
"I ate a whole fish."
- 2 Entire, undivided.; Used as an intensifier.
"I brought a whole lot of balloons for the party. She ate a whole bunch of french fries."
- 3 Sound, uninjured, healthy.
"He is of whole mind, but the same cannot be said about his physical state."
- 4 From which none of its constituents has been removed.
"whole wheat; whole milk"
- 5 As yet unworked.
- 1 including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete wordnet
- 2 (of siblings) having the same parents wordnet
- 3 acting together as a single undiversified whole wordnet
- 4 exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health wordnet
- 5 not injured or harmed wordnet
- 1 In entirety; entirely; wholly. colloquial
"I ate a fish whole!"
- 1 to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent; Completely or entirely wordnet
- 1 Something complete, without any parts missing.
"This variety of fascinating details didn't fall together into an enjoyable, coherent whole."
- 2 an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity wordnet
- 3 An entirety.
- 4 all of something including all its component elements or parts wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English hol, hole (“healthy, unhurt, whole”), from Old English hāl (“healthy, safe”), from Proto-West Germanic *hail, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, safe, sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“healthy, whole”). The spelling with wh-, introduced in the 15th century, represents a pronunciation with an excrescent /w/ that failed to survive in the standard language (compare one, whore). Cognates Compare West Frisian hiel, Low German heel/heil, Dutch heel, German heil, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål hel, Norwegian Nynorsk heil; also Welsh coel (“omen”), Breton kel (“omen, mention”), Old Prussian kails (“healthy”), Old Church Slavonic цѣлъ (cělŭ, “healthy, unhurt”). Related to hale, health, hail, hallow, heal, and holy.
From Middle English hol, hole (“healthy, unhurt, whole”), from Old English hāl (“healthy, safe”), from Proto-West Germanic *hail, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, safe, sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“healthy, whole”). The spelling with wh-, introduced in the 15th century, represents a pronunciation with an excrescent /w/ that failed to survive in the standard language (compare one, whore). Cognates Compare West Frisian hiel, Low German heel/heil, Dutch heel, German heil, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål hel, Norwegian Nynorsk heil; also Welsh coel (“omen”), Breton kel (“omen, mention”), Old Prussian kails (“healthy”), Old Church Slavonic цѣлъ (cělŭ, “healthy, unhurt”). Related to hale, health, hail, hallow, heal, and holy.
From Middle English hol, hole (“healthy, unhurt, whole”), from Old English hāl (“healthy, safe”), from Proto-West Germanic *hail, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, safe, sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“healthy, whole”). The spelling with wh-, introduced in the 15th century, represents a pronunciation with an excrescent /w/ that failed to survive in the standard language (compare one, whore). Cognates Compare West Frisian hiel, Low German heel/heil, Dutch heel, German heil, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål hel, Norwegian Nynorsk heil; also Welsh coel (“omen”), Breton kel (“omen, mention”), Old Prussian kails (“healthy”), Old Church Slavonic цѣлъ (cělŭ, “healthy, unhurt”). Related to hale, health, hail, hallow, heal, and holy.
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