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All means ‘every one’, ‘the complete number or amount’ or ‘the whole’. The meaning of all is the whole amount, quantity, or extent of. How to use all in a sentence.

You use all to refer to a situation or to life in general. All is silent on the island now. As you'll have read in our news pages, all has not been well of late.

Games staking all of one's chips, as in poker. Putting all of one's available resources into an effort: • she had flour and stuff all over her hands.

• there are leaves all over the car. • the choir has sung in concerts all over the country. • katie's toys were spread out all over the floor.

When 'all' refers to a group of people/things as a unified whole, it comes with a singular verb, but when 'all' refers to multiple groups of items, objects, people, etc. See examples of all used in a sentence. There are 63 meanings listed in oed's entry for the word all, two of which are labelled obsolete.