full – English noun declension

English noun forms of full

Noun: full
Singularfull
Pluralfulls

Sample Sentences

  • The swan's-down feather,
  • That stands upon the swell at full of tide. [c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:]
  • Sicilian tortures and the brazen bull,
  • Are emblems, rather than express the full
  • Of what he feels. [1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Third Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:]
  • I was fed to the full.
  • […] he had tasted their food, and found it so palatable that he had eaten his full before he knew it. [1911, Berthold Auerbach, Bayard Taylor, The villa on the Rhine:]
  • Early next morning we were over at the elk carcass, and, as we expected, found that the bear had eaten his full at it during the night. [2008, Jay Cassell, The Gigantic Book Of Hunting Stories:]
  • When he had eaten his full, they set to work again. [2010, C. E. Morgan, All the Living: A Novel:]
  • It is like, that the brain of man waxeth moister and fuller upon the full of the moon: … [a. 1622, Francis Bacon, Natural History, in The works of Francis Bacon, 1765, page 322]
  • a. 1656, Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (editor), Works, Volume VII: Practical Works, Revised edition, 1808 page 219,
  • This earthly moon, the Church, hath her fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses, while the shadow of this sinful mass hides her beauty from the world.

Etymology

From Middle English fulle, fylle, fille, from Old English fyllu, fyllo (“fullness, fill, plenty”), from Proto-Germanic *fullį̄, *fulnō (“fullness, filling, overflow”), from Proto-Indo-European *plūno-, *plno- (“full”), from *pelh₁-, *pleh₁- (“to fill; full”). Cognate with German Fülle (“fullness, fill”), Icelandic fylli (“fulness, fill”). More at fill. See: Middle English Nouns 'fulle', Old English Nouns 'fyllu', German Nouns 'Fülle', Icelandic Nouns 'fylli'.

Verbs referencing "full"

English Nouns complete, Irish Nouns lán, Polish Nouns ful, Romanian Nouns ful.