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Definition of All told
1. Adverb. With everything included or counted. "Altogether he earns close to a million dollars"
Definition of All told
1. Adverb. (idiomatic) With everything included, counted(,) or summed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of All Told
Literary usage of All told
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Daring Adventures of Kit Carson and Fremont, Among Buffaloes, Grizzlies by John Charles Frémont (1888)
"This force, to which Carson was attached in the capacity of guide, was composed
of about thirty souls, all told. Most of the scouts had been in the service ..."
2. The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People from the Earliest by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1900)
"... Strike of Bakers in Magnesia a Semitic City—all told out on the Stone—No other
Account of it Known—Great Disturbance—Cut off the Supply of Bread—A Bread ..."
3. The Autobiography of Sir John Bramston: K.B., of Skreens, in the Hundred of by Sir John Bramston, Baron Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1845)
"... and gaue for reason that his standing kept 500 voices from Mildmay, and had
hindered none for Mr. Maynard or Sir Thomas Fanshaw; but we all told him by ..."
4. The Trial of Col. Aaron Burr, on an Indictment for Treason, Before the by T. Carpenter (1808)
"No, for they have all told the Court that they were,not possessed of the facts,
and did not know what their own witnesses could prove ; and cannot know what ..."
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