all told

English

Etymology

From all + told (“counted”), from the original, now archaic sense of tell, which see.

Pronunciation

  • Audio (General Australian):(file)

Adverb

all told (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) With everything included, counted, or summed; in total.
    Synonyms: altogether, all in all, all things considered, in total
    I think they had over 300 people there, all told.

Translations

See also

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.