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all is an adjective and adverb meaning "(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class". It carries 3 recorded senses.
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
“we sat up all night”
“ate all the food”
“all men are mortal”
“all parties are welcome”
completely given to or absorbed by
“became all attention”
to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly')
“he was wholly convinced”
“entirely satisfied with the meal”
“it was completely different from what we expected”
“was completely at fault”
“a totally new situation”
“the directions were all wrong”
“it was not altogether her fault”
“an altogether new approach”
“a whole new idea”
“she felt right at home”
“he fell right into the trap”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for all come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.