1. Adjective
Containing the total amount, number, etc.; comprising all the parts; free from deficiency; all; total; entire; as, the whole earth; the whole solar system; the whole army; the whole nation.
2. Adjective
Complete; entire; not defective or imperfect; not broken or fractured; unimpaired; uninjured; integral; as, a whole orange; the egg is whole; the vessel is whole.
3. Adjective
Possessing, or being in a state of, heath and soundness; healthy; sound; well.
4. Noun
The entire thing; the entire assemblage of parts; totality; all of a thing, without defect or exception; a thing complete in itself.
5. Noun
A regular combination of parts; a system.
6. Noun
all of something including all its component elements or parts; "Europe considered as a whole"; "the whole of American literature"
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