all together

1. 1.

   all at the same time

   “Let's say `Yes!' all at once”

   Synonymsall at once
2. 2.

   used of a group whose members acted or were acted upon collectively and when `all' and `together' can be separated by other words

   “they were herded all together”

   “they were all herded together”

   “the books lay all together in a heap”

   “the books all lay together...”

Questions about all together

What does all together mean?

all together means "all at the same time". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for all together?

Close synonyms include all at once. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is all together a common word?

all together is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.