Definition of Sum total

1. Noun. The final aggregate. "The sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered"

Exact synonyms: Sum, Summation
Generic synonyms: Accumulation, Aggregation, Assemblage, Collection
Specialized synonyms: Aggregate, Congeries, Conglomeration
Derivative terms: Sum, Summate, Summate, Summational

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sum Total

sultone
sultones
sultrier
sultriest
sultrily
sultriness
sultrinesses
sulu
sulus
sulvanite
sum
sum-up
sum of its parts
sum of money
sum total (current term)
sum up
sumac
sumac family
sumach
sumachs
sumacs
sumanene
sumat
sumatras
sumatriptan
sumbal
sumbals
sumbitch
sumbitches

Literary usage of Sum total

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ireland: Historical and Statistical by George Lewis Smyth (1847)
"It further appears by the Twelfth Report of the Commissioners, that the following is the sum-total received and applied under the chief head of their ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... chiefly of the Prankish kings, divided into many single laws or chapters (capitula'), so that a capitulare meant the sum total of such single laws. ..."

3. The history of America by William Robertson (1822)
"general, and other officers, were entitled to a share far greater than that of the private men, the sum total must have risen much beyond what I have ..."

4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1849)
"In actual progress the sum-total appears to be a zero. The position of Germany, although calmer on the surface, is as difficult, as embarrassing, ..."

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