one and all
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 6.17 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
pron
The entire set of persons or things within a given domain, considered both as separate individuals and collectively.
Example Sentences
- "Therefore my friends, stand to it one and all, refuse this filthy trash."
- "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."
- "[M]en of every condition […] had laid their hearts at her feet. One and all, they had been compelled to pick them up and take them elsewhere."
- "Later American literary stars like Hemingway, Faulkner, Sinclair Lewis and John Steinbeck, Nobel Prize-winners one and all, never had more than a spoonful of the great gouts of fame that Twain — and Mrs. Stowe, for that matter — enjoyed everywhere in the world."