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Word entry · 5 letters

whole

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"Entire thing"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /həʊl/Part of speech noun, adverb, adjectiveSorted ehlowStarts with WEnds with E1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Complete thing or amount

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • I ate a whole fish.
  • “[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”
  • I brought a whole lot of balloons for the party. She ate a whole bunch of french fries.

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