wholeadj/həʊl/

• 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[…]
• 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].
• 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

  businessminingAs yet unworked.

wholeadv/həʊl/

• 1

  In entirety; entirely; wholly.

  • I ate a fish whole!
  • That’s a whole other story.

wholenoun/həʊl/

• 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.