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all of a sudden
sud·den S0863400 (sŭd′n)adj.1. Happening without warning; unforeseen: a sudden storm.2. Happening or done without delay; hasty or immediate: a sudden decision.3. Characterized by sharp change in elevation; precipitous: a sudden drop in the ocean floor.Idiom: all of a sudden Very quickly and unexpectedly; suddenly.
[Middle English sodain, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *subitānus, from Latin subitāneus, from subitus, from past participle of subīre, to approach stealthily : sub-, secretly; see sub- + īre, to go; see ei- in Indo-European roots.]
sud′den·ly adv.sud′den·ness n.all of a sudden - Is the grammatically correct version; do not say "all of the sudden."See also related terms for sudden.Thesaurus| Adv. | 1. |  all of a sudden - without warning; "all at once, he started shouting"all at once | | 2. |  all of a sudden - happening unexpectedly; "suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her side"of a sudden, suddenly |
Translationssudden (ˈsadn) adjective happening etc quickly and unexpectedly. a sudden attack; His decision to get married is rather sudden!; a sudden bend in the road. 突然的 突然的ˈsuddenness noun 突然 突然ˈsuddenly adverbHe suddenly woke up; Suddenly she realized that the stranger had a gun. 突然地 突然地all of a sudden suddenly or unexpectedly. All of a sudden the lights went out. 冷不防 冷不防all of a sudden
all of a suddenUnexpectedly and abruptly; suddenly. I was startled when the fire alarm went off all of a sudden. I thought Laura and I were friends, but all of a sudden, she stopped talking to me.See also: all, of, suddenall of a suddensuddenly. All of a sudden lightning struck the tree we were sitting under. I felt a sharp pain in my side all of a sudden.See also: all, of, suddenall of a suddenEntirely without warning, abruptly, as in All of a sudden the lights went out. In Shakespeare's day the common phrase was of a sudden, the word all being added in the late 1600s. Also see all at once, def. 2. See also: all, of, suddenall of a sudden COMMON If something happens all of a sudden, it happens quickly and unexpectedly. All of a sudden she didn't look sleepy any more. I felt incredibly lonely all of a sudden.See also: all, of, sudden(all) of a sudden suddenly. As a noun sudden is now found only in this phrase, but from the mid 16th century to the early 18th century it was in regular use in the sense ‘an unexpected danger or emergency’.See also: of, suddenˌall of a ˈsudden suddenly and unexpectedly: I was sitting reading my book when all of a sudden the lights went out.See also: all, of, sudden all of a sudden Very quickly and unexpectedly; suddenly.See also: all, of, suddenSee AOAS
See AOASall of a sudden
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