whole

adj

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.”

   ““[…] 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.””

2. Entire, undivided.

   “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.

adv

1. (colloquial)In entirety; entirely; wholly.

   “I ate a fish whole!”

   “That’s a whole other story.”

noun

1. Something complete, without any parts missing.

   “This variety of fascinating details didn't fall together into an enjoyable, coherent whole.”

2. An entirety.