from A to Z

from A to Z

English

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

from A to Z

1. (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, from beginning to end

Related terms

• A to Z
• from A to B

Translations

comprehensively

Afrikaans: van A tot Z (af) Albanian: nga A në Z Arabic: مِنَ الأَلِف إِلَى اليَاء‎ (mina l-ʾalif ʾilā l-yāʾ) Belarusian: ад а́ да я́ (ad á da já), ад А́ да Я́ (ad Á da Já), ад а́льфы да аме́гі (ad álʹfy da amjéhi) Bulgarian: от А́ до Я́ (ot Á do Já), от а́лфа до оме́га (ot álfa do oméga) Catalan: de la A a la Z Chinese: Mandarin: 從頭到尾／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 Dutch: van A tot Z Estonian: A-st Z-ni Finnish: aasta ööhön (fi), A:sta Ö:hön French: de A à Z (fr), depuis A jusqu'à Z (fr) German: von A bis Z (de) Greek: από το Α ως το Ω (apó to A os to O) Hebrew: מ־א׳ ועד ת׳‎ (he) (mi-álef ve'ád tav) Hungarian: á-tól z-ig (hu), ától zéig, ától cettig Icelandic: frá A til Ö Italian: dalla A alla Z Japanese: 初めから終わりまで (はじめからおわりまで, hajime kara owari made) (from beginning to end), 一から十まで (いちからじゅうまで, ichi kara jū made) (from one to ten) Kazakh: А-дан Я-ға дейін (A-dan Ä-ğa deiın) Korean: 하나에서 열까지 다 (hana-eseo yeol-kkaji da) (from one to ten) Latvian: no A līdz Z Lithuanian: nuo A iki Z Macedonian: од А до Ш (od A do Š) Norwegian: Bokmål: fra A til Å Occitan: de la A a la Z Polish: od A do Z (pl), od a do zet (pl) Portuguese: de A a Z Romanian: de la A la Z Russian: от а́ до я́ (ru) (ot á do já), от А́ до Я́ (ot Á do Já), с нача́ла до конца́ (s načála do koncá) (from beginning to end), от а́льфы до оме́ги (ru) (ot álʹfy do omégi), от а́ до и́жицы (ru) (ot á do ížicy) (archaic) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: од А до Ш (Serbian) Roman: od A do Š (Serbian), od A do Z (Croatia) Slovak: od A po Z Slovene: od A do Ž Spanish: de pe a pa (es), de la cruz a la fecha Swedish: från A till Ö, A och O Turkish: A'dan Z'ye Ukrainian: від а́ до я́ (vid á do já), від А́ до Я́ (vid Á do Já), від а́льфи до оме́ги (vid álʹfy do oméhy)

References

1. Christine A. Lindberg, editor (2002), “from A to Z”, in The Oxford College Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Spark Publishing, →ISBN, page 1.
2. Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 1