whole
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
whole/həʊl/
▶adjective
- 1 complete; entire.
■ emphasizing a large extent or number: a whole range of issues.
- 2 in an unbroken or undamaged state.
■ with no part removed.
- 1 a thing that is complete in itself.
- 2 (the whole) all of something.
– phrases
as a whole in general.
in whole entirely or fully.
on the whole taking everything into account; in general.
the whole nine yards informal, chiefly N. Amer. everything possible or available.
as a whole in general.
in whole entirely or fully.
on the whole taking everything into account; in general.
the whole nine yards informal, chiefly N. Amer. everything possible or available.
– derivatives
wholeness noun.
wholeness noun.
'whole' also found in these Oxford entries:
aggregate
- alimentary canal
- aliquot
- all
- altogether
- astronomy
- balaclava
- ball
- ball game
- banco
- blend
- bodily
- bracket
- bulgar wheat
- burka
- by
- caboodle
- capsule
- catholic
- characteristic
- chest
- coalesce
- cohere
- coherent
- cohesion
- collective
- colour
- combine
- committee
- common
- commons
- complementarity
- complementary
- component
- compose
- composition
- compound
- comprise
- constituent
- constitute
- cosmos
- cut
- decimate
- discectomy
- East Indian
- enchilada
- enprint
- ensemble
- entire
- entirety
