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all-

prefixattested in dialogue

Indicates complete power or authority in an area.

prefix

  1. 1

    Indicates complete power or authority in an area.

    all- + knowing → all-knowing

    all- + loving → all-loving

    all- + seeing → all-seeing

    all- + powerful → all-powerful

  2. 2

    Indicates that a term applies in a general manner.

    all- + around → all-around

    all- + over → all-over

    all- + India → all-India

    all- + Union → all-Union = union-level scope

  3. 3

    Variant of All-Alternative letter-case form of All-.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Indo-European *h₂elnós Proto-Germanic *allaz Proto-Germanic *ala- Proto-West Germanic *ala- Old English æl- Middle English all- English all- From Middle English all- (also al-), from Old English eall-, eal- (“all-”). Cognate with Dutch al-, German all-, Swedish all-. More at all.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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