Meaning

2 senses

  1. Something complete, without any parts missing.

    This variety of fascinating details didn't fall together into an enjoyable, coherent whole.

    Ganze

    це́лоеcéloje

    ці́леcíle

  2. An entirety.

More definitions
  • an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity
  • all of something including all its component elements or parts

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

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
something complete:
Русский
By meaning 1
something complete:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
something complete:

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

plural: wholes
Singularwhole
Pluralwholes

regular

Synonyms

9 synonyms
entirenesstotalityentiretyfullnesspleromatotalnesswholeness
Close in meaning
  • an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity:unit

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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