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all-over

all-over adjective: over the whole area or extent.

Adjective

all-over (not comparable)

  1. Over the whole area or extent.
    • Charing Cross station of the old South-Eastern Railway differed much in appearance from that of today, as it had an arched all-over roof, which collapsed some nine years later and was replaced by the present one.1939 June, T. R. Perkins, “My Red-Letter Day - II”, in Railway Magazine, page 399

Noun

all-over (plural all-overs)

  1. A suntan that covers the entire body, as achieved by sunbathing in the nude.

Forms of all-over

Adjective
alternative formallover
Noun
pluralall-overs

Origin of all-over

From Middle English alover. By surface analysis, all + over.

Phrases with all-over

Questions about all-over

What does all-over mean?
All-over means over the whole area or extent.
What part of speech is all-over?
All-over can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near all-over in the dictionary

  1. all-or-none
  2. all-or-nothing
  3. all-out
  4. all-outer
  5. all-outers
  6. all-over
  7. all-over painting
  8. all-over paintings
  9. all-overish
  10. all-overishness
  11. all-overness

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