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one and all

one and all pronoun: the entire set of persons or things within a given domain, considered both as separate individuals and collectively.

Pronoun

one and all

  1. (idiomatic) The entire set of persons or things within a given domain, considered both as separate individuals and collectively.
    • Therefore my friends, stand to it one and all, refuse this filthy trash.1724, Jonathan Swift, “Drapier's Letters”, in 1
    • Now this doubloon was of purest, virgin gold […] and however wanton in their sailor ways, one and all, the mariners revered it as the white whale's talisman.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 99, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    all and sundry

one and all meaning in Tamil

one and all in Tamil

எல்லோரும், ஒவ்வொருவரும்

Synonyms of one and all

Questions about one and all

What does one and all mean?
One and all means the entire set of persons or things within a given domain, considered both as separate individuals and collectively.
What is one and all in Tamil?
One and all in Tamil is எல்லோரும், ஒவ்வொருவரும். See One and all meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is one and all?
One and all is a pronoun.

Words near one and all in the dictionary

  1. one after the other
  2. one age with
  3. one and a half
  4. one and a half syndrome
  5. one and a halves
  6. one and all
  7. one and done
  8. one and dones
  9. one and nines
  10. one and one
  11. one and ones

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Adapted from Wiktionary: one and all (page history and authors); one and all (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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