Definition of: whole

(hōl) adjective
1. Containing all the parts necessary to make up a total; undivided and undiminished; entire; complete.
2. Having all the essential or original parts in their proper constitution; unbroken and uninjured; sound; intact.
3. Specifically, in or having regained sound health; hale.
4. Having the same parents; full, as opposed to half–: a whole brother.
5. Colloq. Each one of (something); all: He ate the whole batch of cookies.
6. Math. Integral.
—on the whole Taking one thing with another.
—out of whole cloth Fabricated; made up, without foundation in truth or fact, as a story or lie.
—noun
1. All the parts or elements entering into and making up a thing.
2. An organization of parts making a unity or system; an organism. See synonyms under AGGREGATE, MASS¹. ♦ Homophone: hole. [OE (Northumbrian) hol, var. of hāl. Related to HALE².]