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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (whole)

▸ 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.

Similar:
altogether, all, livelong, entire, totally, wholly, entirely, completely, undivided, integral, more...

Opposite:
fragmented, partial, incomplete, divided, broken

Types:
wheat, rye, barley, oats, quinoa, brown rice, white rice, black rice, more...

Phrases:
the whole, whole of, whole world, whole thing, whole body, more...

Adjectives:
organic, larger, coherent, unified, harmonious, single, integrated, social, complex, complete, greater

Colors:
    white,     beige,     cream,     ivory,     light gray, more...


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Similar:
altogether, all, livelong, entire, totally, wholly, entirely, completely, undivided, integral, more...

Opposite:
fragmented, partial, incomplete, divided, broken

Types:
wheat, rye, barley, oats, quinoa, brown rice, white rice, black rice, more...

Phrases:
the whole, whole of, whole world, whole thing, whole body, whole life, in whole, whole story, whole lot, whole time, whole number, whole truth, Whole blood, whole length, whole numbers, whole point, whole wheat, more...

Adjectives:
organic, larger, coherent, unified, harmonious, single, integrated, social, complex, complete, greater

Colors:
    white,     beige,     cream,     ivory,     light gray, more...



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