The meaning of ALL is the whole amount, quantity, or extent of. How to use all in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of All.

n. The whole of one's fortune, resources, or energy; everything one has: The brave defenders gave their all.

You use all to refer to a situation or to life in general. All is silent on the island now. As you'll have read in our news pages, all has not been well of late.

All means ‘every one’, ‘the complete number or amount’ or ‘the whole’. We use it most often as a determiner. We can use a countable noun or an uncountable noun after it: … When all refers …

ALL definition: the whole of (used in referring to quantity, extent, or duration). See examples of all used in a sentence.

4 days ago · When you talk about all of one thing, you mean the whole thing. When Shakespeare writes, in As You Like It, “ All the world's a stage,” he means the whole world.

the whole of (used in referring to quantity, extent, or duration): all the cake; all the way; all year. the whole number of (used in referring to individuals or particulars, taken collectively): all …

all meaning, definition, what is all: the whole of an amount, thing, or type o...: Learn more.

There are 63 meanings listed in OED's entry for the word all, two of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

6 days ago · The bare form all is used with articles and pronouns, which it precedes (as in English). For instance: all die Sachen (“all the things”); all dies [es] Gerede (“all this chitchat”); …