What is the meaning of whole?

noun

• All of something including all its component elements or parts.
  • usage: "Europe considered as a whole"; "the whole of American literature"
• An assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity.
  • usage: "how big is that part compared to the whole"; "the team is a unit"
  • synonyms: unit

adjective

• Including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete.
  • usage: "gave his whole attention"; "a whole wardrobe for the tropics"; "the whole hog"; "a whole week"; "the baby cried the whole trip home"; "a whole loaf of bread"
• Of siblings. ( having the same parents)
  • usage: "whole brothers and sisters"
• Not injured.
  • synonyms: unharmed, unhurt, unscathed
• Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
  • usage: "hale and hearty"; "whole in mind and body"; "a whole person again"
  • synonyms: hale
• Acting together as a single undiversified whole.
  • usage: "a solid voting bloc"
  • synonyms: solid, unanimous

adverb

• To a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly'. )
  • usage: "he was wholly convinced"; "entirely satisfied with the meal"; "it was completely different from what we expected"; "was completely at fault"; "a totally new situation"; "the directions were all wrong"; "it was not altogether her fault"; "an altogether new approach"; "a whole new idea"
  • synonyms: wholly, entirely, completely, totally, all, altogether