total
pronunciation
How to pronounce total in British English:
UK [ˈtəʊtl]
How to pronounce total in American English:
US [ˈtoʊtl]
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- Noun:
- the whole amount
- a quantity obtained by addition
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- Verb:
- add up in number or quantity
- determine the sum of
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- Adjective:
- constituting the full quantity or extent; complete
- including everything
- without conditions or limitations
- complete in extent or degree and in every particular
Word Origin
- total
- total: [14] Total goes back ultimately to Latin tōtus ‘whole’ (source also of French tout, Italian tutto, and Spanish todo ‘all’). From it was derived medieval Latin totālis ‘of the whole’, which passed into English via Old French total. Tot [18], as in ‘tot up’, is short for total. Totalizator was coined in Australia in the late 1870s, and the abbreviation tote started life in Australian English too.=> tot
- total (v.)
- 1716, "bring to a total," from total (n.). Intransitive sense "reach a total of" is from 1859. Meaning "to destroy one's car" first recorded 1954. Related: Totaled; totaling.
- total (n.)
- "whole amount, sum," 1550s, from total (adj.).
- total (adj.)
- late 14c., from Old French total (14c.), from Medieval Latin totalis "entire, total" (as in summa totalis "sum total"), from Latin totus "all, all at once, the whole, entire, altogether," of unknown origin. Total war is attested from 1937 (William Shirer), in reference to a concept developed in Germany.
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Example
- 1. Manufacturing represents around 55 % of total trade .
- 2. Total paid circulation is gone as the top-line measure .
- 3. That represents 8 % of their total headcount .
- 4. The total fertility rate is contentious .
- 5. That is about half the total corporate-bond issuance .