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- Regno Unito//həʊl//
- Regno Unito/[hɜʊ̯ɫ]/
- Regno Unito/[hɒʊ̯ɫ]/
- Regno Unito/[-ɫ̩]/
- Regno Unito//hɔl//
Entire, undivided.
aggettivo
- 1
Entire, undivided.
I ate a whole fish.
During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]
Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
A traveller in 1887 describes the difference between the peoples found when crossing the frontier in the Ichow prefecture. In Kiangsu he had been met by rudeness and obstruction, on his entering Shantung, at the very first village he was received with courtesy and even kindness, and he found the same feelings expressed through the whole province.
- 2
Entire, undivided. Used as an intensifier.
I brought a whole lot of balloons for the party. She ate a whole bunch of french fries.
There, a huge blue heron stands sentry like a statue, eye on the surface, waiting for his next meal to wriggle by. A lone grassy hill overlooks it all, well above the flood line, big enough to pitch a whole mess of tents [on].
I'm thinking, thanks a whole fuck of a lot, Robert. You could have laid that on me weeks ago.
- 3
Sound, uninjured, healthy.
He is of whole mind, but the same cannot be said about his physical state.
Here, with one balm for many fevers found, / Whole of an ancient evil, I sleep sound.
- 4
From which none of its constituents has been removed.
whole wheat; whole milk
- 5
As yet unworked.
Etimologia
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos Proto-Germanic *hailaz Proto-West Germanic *hail Old English hāl Middle English hol English whole 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”). The spelling with wh-, attested since ca. 1400, represents an excrescent /w/, which developed in words with initial /(h)ɔː/, /(h)oː/ in southwestern dialects of Middle English. While this pronunciation did not establish itself in the standard language (except in one), the spelling survived in whole and whore, in the former case likely reinforced by a desire to disambiguate from hole. Cognates Compare West Frisian hiel, Low German heel/heil, Dutch heel, German heil, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål hel, Norwegian Nynorsk heil; also Welsh coel (“omen”), Breton kel (“omen, mention”), Old Prussian kails (“healthy”), Old Church Slavonic цѣлъ (cělŭ, “healthy, unhurt”). Related to hale, health, hail, hallow, heal, and holy. False cognate of Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos).
avverbio
- 1
In entirety; entirely; wholly.
I ate a fish whole!
That’s a whole other story.
sostantivo
- 1
Something complete, without any parts missing.
This variety of fascinating details didn't fall together into an enjoyable, coherent whole.
- 2
An entirety.
It is not clear how she imagined the Bolsheviks could keep themselves in power in 1918 while allowing free elections, since the proletariat was only a minority and it could not by any means be supposed that the whole of it would vote for them.
Forme
- plurale
- wholes
- comparativo
- wholer, more whole
- superlativo
- wholest, most whole