Meanings
- idiomaticThe entire set of persons or things within a given domain, considered both as separate individuals and collectively.
Therefore my friends, stand to it one and all, refuse this filthy trash.
1724, Jonathan Swift, “Drapier's Letters”, in 13 more examples
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.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 99, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC[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.
1920, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 2, in The Coming of BillLater 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.
2010 April 24, Tom Wolfe, “Op-Ed Contributor: Faking West, Going East”, in New York Times, retrieved 26 Nov 2013Synonyms: all and sundry
Synonyms & antonyms
pronounThe entire set of persons or things within a given domain, considered both as separate individuals and collectively.
Translations
Catalan tots i cada un, tothom
- tots i cada unthe entire set of persons or things
- tothomthe entire set of persons or things
- tot el mónthe entire set of persons or things
Polish wszyscy co do jednego
- wszyscy co do jednegothe entire set of persons or things
Spanish todos, todos y todas
- todosthe entire set of persons or things
- todos y todasthe entire set of persons or things
Swedish alla och envar, var och en
- alla och envarthe entire set of persons or things
- var och enthe entire set of persons or things
Cite this entry
one and all. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/one%20and%20all
“one and all.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/one%20and%20all. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “one and all,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/one%20and%20all.
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