whole
adverb/həʊl/
/həʊl/
(informal)- whole new/different/other… completely new/different
- It's a whole new world out here.
- That's a whole other story.
- I suddenly saw him in a whole different light.
Homophones hole | wholehole whole/həʊl//həʊl/- hole noun
- She caught a fish through a hole in the ice.
- whole adjective
- He hadn't told us the whole story.
- whole adverb (informal)
- The series has taken her career to a whole new level.
- whole noun
- The camera moves and you see the whole of the palace.
Word OriginOld English hāl, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch heel and German heil, also to the verb hail (senses 1-3). The spelling with wh- (reflecting a dialect pronunciation with w-) first appeared in the 15th cent.
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