Usually means: Complete, undivided unit or entity.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word whole:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. whole: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. whole: Merriam-Webster
  3. whole, whole, the whole: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. whole: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. whole: Collins English Dictionary
  6. whole: Vocabulary.com
  7. Whole, whole: Wordnik
  8. whole: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. whole: Wiktionary
  10. whole: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. whole: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. whole: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. whole: Dictionary.com
  14. whole: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. whole: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Whole, Whole (EP), Whole (Soil album), Whole (campaign), Whole (film), Whole: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Whole: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. whole: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. whole: Rhymezone
  20. whole: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. whole: FreeDictionary.org
  22. whole: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. whole: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. whole: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. whole: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  3. whole: Cook's Thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. whole, the whole: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. whole: Encyclopedia
  2. Whole: Cybernetics and Systems

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. whole: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. whole: Natural Health glossary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. whole: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. WHOLE: Acronym Finder
  2. whole: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. whole: MATH SPOKEN HERE!

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. whole: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. WHOLE: NATURAL RESOURCE INVENTORY

(Note: See wholeness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Entire, undivided.
adjective:  Used as an intensifier.
adjective:  Sound, uninjured, healthy.
adjective:  (of food) From which none of its constituents has been removed.
adjective:  (mining) As yet unworked.
adverb:  (colloquial) In entirety; entirely; wholly.
noun:  Something complete, without any parts missing.
noun:  An entirety.

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