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whole
English
Alternative forms
- hole (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English hole (“healthy, unhurt, whole”), from Old English h?l (“healthy, safe”), from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, safe, sound”) (compare West Frisian hiel, Low German heel/heil, Dutch heel, German heil, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål hel, Norwegian Nynorsk heil), from Proto-Indo-European *kóylos (“healthy, whole”). Compare Welsh coel (“omen”), Breton kel (“omen, mention”), Old Prussian kails (“healthy”), Old Church Slavonic ???? (c?l?, “healthy, unhurt”). Related to hale, health, hail, hallow, heal, and holy.
The spelling with wh-, introduced in the 15th century, was for disambiguation with hole, and was absent in Scots.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /h??l/, [h???], [h???]
- (US) IPA(key): /ho?l/, [ho??]
- Homophone: hole
- Rhymes: -??l
Adjective
whole (comparative wholer or more whole, superlative wholest or most whole)
- Entire, undivided.
- Synonyms: total; see also Thesaurus:entire
- 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- 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 […]
- Used as an intensifier.
- I brought a whole lot of balloons for the party. She ate a whole bunch of french fries.
- 2016, Rae Carson, Like a River Glorious, HarperCollins (?ISBN):
- 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].
- 2011, Keith Maillard, Looking Good: Difficulty at the Beginning, Brindle and Glass (?ISBN):
- I'm thinking, thanks a whole fuck of a lot, Robert. You could have laid that on me weeks ago.
- Sound, uninjured, healthy.
- Synonyms: hale, well; see also Thesaurus:healthy
- 1939, Alfred Edward Housman, Additional Poems, X, lines 5-6
- Here, with one balm for many fevers found, / Whole of an ancient evil, I sleep sound.
- (of food) From which none of its constituents has been removed.
- (mining) As yet unworked.
Translations
Adverb
whole (comparative more whole, superlative most whole)
- (colloquial) In entirety; entirely; wholly.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:completely
Translations
Noun
whole (plural wholes)
- Something complete, without any parts missing.
- Synonyms: entireness, totality; see also Thesaurus:entirety
- Meronym: part
- An entirety.
Translations
Derived terms
Further reading
- All and whole — Linguapress online English grammar
References
- whole at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Howle, howel
whole From the web:
- what whole number
- what whole grains are gluten free
- what wholesale means
- what whole life insurance mean
- what wholesome mean
- what whole grains are good for you
- what whole number is equal to 1/4
- what whole number is equivalent to 3/3
community
English
Etymology
From Late Middle English communite, borrowed from Old French communité, comunité, comunete (modern French communauté), from Classical Latin comm?nit?s (“community; public spirit”), from comm?nis (“common, ordinary; of or for the community, public”) + -it?s (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-teh?ts (“suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being”)). Comm?nis is derived from con- (“prefix indicating a being or bringing together of several objects”) (from cum (“with”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?óm (“along, at, next to, with”)) + m?nus (“employment, office, service; burden, duty, obligation”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to change, exchange”)). Doublet of communitas.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k??mju?n?ti/
- (General American, Canada) enPR: k?-myo?o?n?-ti, IPA(key): /k(?)?mjun?ti/, [k(?)?mjun??i]
- Hyphenation: com?mun?i?ty
Noun
community (countable and uncountable, plural communities)
- (countable) A group sharing a common understanding, and often the same language, law, manners, and/or tradition.
- (countable) A residential or religious collective; a commune.
- (countable, ecology) A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
- (countable, Internet) A group of people interacting by electronic means for educational, professional, social, or other purposes; a virtual community.
- (uncountable) The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
- (countable, obsolete) Common enjoyment or possession; participation.
- (uncountable, obsolete) Common character; likeness.
- (uncountable, obsolete) Commonness; frequency.
- (Wales, countable) A local area within a county or county borough which is the lowest tier of local government, usually represented by a community council or town council, which is generally equivalent to a civil parish in England.
Alternative forms
- communitie (obsolete)
Antonyms
- anticommunity
- noncommunity
Hyponyms
- subcommunity
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
References
- community at OneLook Dictionary Search
- community in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "community" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 75.
- community in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Further reading
- community on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- community (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Community (Wales) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
community From the web:
- what community am i in
- what community do i live in
- what community do i belong to
- what community character am i
- what community means
- what community board am i in
- what community colleges are near me
- what community service can i do
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