all-time

English

Alternative forms

• alltime

Etymology

From all +‎ time.

Adjective

all-time (not comparable)

1. Of all time; unsurpassed up to the present time.

   Sales have reached an all-time low, so the business may have to declare bankruptcy.

   • 2011 October 2, Jonathan Jurejko, “Bolton 1 - 5 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport‎:

     And the Premier League's all-time top-goalscoring midfielder proved he has not lost the knack of being in the right place at the right time with a trio of clinical finishes.

   • 2020 December 2, Anthony Lambert, “Reimagining Railway Stations”, in Rail, page 38:

     During the 1960s and 1970s, when both the quality of architecture and the appreciation of historic buildings reached an all-time low, British Railways was notorious for replacing good station buildings and canopies with little more than bus shelters, usually in conjunction with de-staffing.

Translations

of all time — see also of all time,‎ unprecedented

Finnish: kaikkien aikojen Hungarian: minden idők (leg-...-bbja/je) Spanish: vitalicio (es)

See also

• BOAT
• DOAT
• GOAT
• of all time
• WOAT

References

• “all-time”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• Maillet