THE WHOLE WAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does the whole way mean? 

• THE WHOLE WAY (adverb)
  The adverb THE WHOLE WAY has 1 sense:

1. to the goal

  Familiarity information: THE WHOLE WAY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THE WHOLE WAY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To the goal

Synonyms:

all the way; the whole way

Context example:

she climbed the mountain all the way

 Context examples 

So very good of them to send her the whole way!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“You seemed to enjoy your drive here very much this morning. I was glad to see you so well entertained. You and Julia were laughing the whole way.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He was a good-hearted man when he was sober, but a perfect fiend when he was drunk, or rather when he was half drunk, for he seldom really went the whole way.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Poor Marianne, languid and low from the nature of her malady, and feeling herself universally ill, could no longer hope that tomorrow would find her recovered; and the idea of what tomorrow would have produced, but for this unlucky illness, made every ailment severe; for on that day they were to have begun their journey home; and, attended the whole way by a servant of Mrs. Jennings, were to have taken their mother by surprise on the following forenoon.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

When you are half-way over, throw it down, and out of the waters will immediately spring up a high nut-tree on which the griffin will be able to rest, otherwise he would not have the strength to bear you the whole way; if, therefore, thou dost forget to throw down the nut, he will let you both fall into the sea.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

What else was it possible to infer from what you said, you unkind creature, when you know as well as I do, that on his account only last quarter I wouldn't buy myself a new parasol, though that old green one is frayed the whole way up, and the fringe is perfectly mangy?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mrs. Norris had been talking to her the whole way from Northampton of her wonderful good fortune, and the extraordinary degree of gratitude and good behaviour which it ought to produce, and her consciousness of misery was therefore increased by the idea of its being a wicked thing for her not to be happy.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)