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all-

all- prefix: indicates complete power or authority in an area. Also the alternative letter-case form of All-.

Prefix (1)

all-

  1. Indicates complete power or authority in an area.
    • all- + knowing → all-knowing
    • all- + loving → all-loving
    Synonyms:
    omni-
  2. Indicates that a term applies in a general manner.
    • all- + around → all-around
    • all- + over → all-over
    Synonyms:
    omni-, pan-

Prefix (2) capitalized: All-

All-

  1. Indicates a team comprising the best players for each position
    • All- + America → All-America = a team made up of the best players from America
    • All- + Mountain West Conference → All-Mountain West Conference
  2. Alternative letter-case form of all-.

Also used as

all- is also the alternative letter-case form of All-.

Examples of all- in a sentence

  • all- + seeing → all-seeing
  • all- + powerful → all-powerful
  • all- + important → all-important
  • all- + India → all-India
  • all- + Union → all-Union = union-level scope

Synonyms of all-

Origin of all-

From Middle English all- (also al-), from Old English eall-, eal- (“all-”). Cognate with Dutch al-, German all-, Swedish all-. More at all.

Questions about all-

What does all- mean?
All- means indicates complete power or authority in an area.
How do you use all- in a sentence?
all- + seeing → all-seeing
What part of speech is all-?
All- is a prefix.

Words near all- in the dictionary

  1. all's
  2. all's fair in love and war
  3. all's fish that comes to the net
  4. all's one
  5. all's well that ends well
  6. all-
  7. all-a-mort
  8. All-America
  9. All-American
  10. all-Americanness
  11. All-Americans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: all- (page history and authors); All- (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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