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from_A_to_Z

from A to Z

English

Adverb

from A to Z

(idiomatic) Covering a complete range; comprehensively; from beginning to end.^[1]^[2]
They covered the whole field from A to Z in eight classes.

Synonyms

from A to izzard
(comprehensively): from soup to nuts

Translations

comprehensively

Afrikaans: van A tot Z
Arabic: من الألف إلى الياء
Belarusian: ад А да Я ‎(ad A da Ja)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 從頭到尾 (zh), 从头到尾 (zh) ‎(cóng tóu dào wěi) (from head to tail)
Czech: od A do Z
Danish: fra A til Z, fra A til Å
Finnish: aasta ööhön, A:sta Ö:hön
French: de A à Z (fr), depuis A jusqu'à Z (fr)
German: von A bis Z (de)
Hebrew: מ-א' ועד ת' (he) ‎(miálef ve'ád tav)
Icelandic: frá A til Ö

Italian: dalla A alla Z
Japanese: 初めから終わりまで ‎(hajime kara owari made) (from beginning to end)
Kazakh: А-дан Я-ға дейін ‎(A-dan Ya-ğa deyin)
Polish: od A do Z (pl), od a do zet (pl)
Portuguese: de A a Z
Russian: от А до Я ‎(ot A do Ja), с нача́ла до конца́ ‎(s načála do koncá) (from beginning to end)
Serbo-Croatian:
Spanish: de pe a pa (es)
Swedish: från A till Ö
Turkish: A'dan Z'ye
Ukrainian: від А до Я ‎(vid A do Ja)

Related terms

A to Z

References

↑ Christine A. Lindberg (editor), The Oxford College Dictionary, 2nd edition (Spark Publishing, 2007 [2002], ISBN 978-1-4114-0500-4), page 1
↑ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], ISBN 0-87779-101-5), page 1