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END-ALL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does end-all mean?
• END-ALL (noun)
The noun END-ALL has 1 sense:
1. the ultimate goal
Familiarity information: END-ALL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The ultimate goal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Context example:
human beings are not the end-all of evolution
Hypernyms ("end-all" is a kind of...):
end; goal (the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it)
Context examples
Was this gentleman to be taken as the final type—the be-all and end-all of development?
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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