Meaning

5 senses

  1. Entire, undivided.

    I ate a whole fish.

    ganz

    це́лыйcélyj, це́льныйcélʹnyj, це́лостныйcélostnyj

    ці́лийcílyj, по́внийpóvnyj

  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

    Voll-

    це́льныйcélʹnyj

  5. As yet unworked.

More definitions
  • including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete
  • (of siblings) having the same parents
  • exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health
  • acting together as a single undiversified whole

Examples

3318 sentences

  1. Did you read the whole book?

    Ти всю книжку прочитала? — deniko

    ruТы прочёл всю книгу? — Biga

    deHast du das ganze Buch gelesen? — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  2. How much is the whole package?

    Скільки за весь пакет? — uaspeaker

    ruСколько за весь пакет? — timsa

    deWie viel kostet das ganze Paket? — human600

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  3. The whole class passed the test.

    Увесь клас склав іспит. — brambury

    ruВесь класс сдал экзамен. — Hellerick

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  4. The captain controls the whole ship.

    Капітан керує цілим кораблем. — leyla

    ruКапитан контролирует весь корабль. — Lenin_1917

    deDer Kapitän kontrolliert das ganze Schiff. — xtofu80

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  5. Tom doesn't know the whole story.

    Том не знає всієї історії. — deniko

    ruТом не знает всей истории. — odexed

    deTom kennt nicht die ganze Geschichte. — Espi

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
entire:
Русский
By meaning 1
entire:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
entire:
food with no constituents removed:

Origin

From Middle English whol, hol, hole (“healthy, unhurt, whole”), from Old English hāl (“hea

From Middle English whol, 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”).

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Forms

wholer/more whole, wholest/most whole
Comparativewholer / more whole Lesson
Superlativewholest / most whole Lesson

regular

Synonyms

27 synonyms
totalB1completeA2entireB1oneA1overallB2wellA1fitA2hailB2healthyA1normalA2soundB2halebuxomfreck
Close in meaning

Antonyms

2 antonyms
fractionalhalf

Word family

47 related words
Relatedwholeness
Deriveddouble wholemake wholepart-whole biaspart-whole modelquadruple wholeswallow wholeunwholesomewhole bloodwhole boilingwhole chebangwhole childwhole clothwhole enchiladawhole foodwhole-footedwhole galewhole-genome duplicationwhole gypwhole-handedlywholeheartedwhole hogwhole languagewhole-lengthwhole-life

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

Collocations

12 patterns
  • spent the whole
  • the whole day
  • the whole thing
  • the whole time
  • his whole life
  • whole life
  • whole thing
  • whole day
  • the whole truth
  • the whole story
  • my whole life
  • a whole lot

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
who'swhoawhoeverB1wholeheartedlywholemealwholesale

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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