1. The whole number, quantity, or amount; totality
2. Used in such phrases as for all I know, for all I care, and for all the good it does to indicate a lack of knowledge, interest, or effectiveness
3. Everybody, everything; all things.
Anyone out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person.
Any person; an unspecified person; any one
Every person; all people.
ETYM Old Eng. al, pl. alle, as. eal, pl. ealle, Northumbrian alle, akin to Dutch and Old High Germ. al, German all, Icel. allr. Dan. al, Swed. all, Goth. alls; and perh. to Irish and Gael. uile, w. oll.
(Homonym: awl).
1. Completely given to or absorbed by.
2. Quantifier; used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class; SYN. all of.
1. One or some or every or all without specification; SYN. whatever, whatsoever.
2. (In negative statements) Either every little or very great but unspecified.
1. Each and all of a series of entities or intervals as specified
2. (Used of count nouns) Each and all of the members of a group considered singly and without exception
1. Wholly, quite
2. So much
4. For each side; apiece