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Definition of Sum total
1. Noun. The final aggregate. "The sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered"
Generic synonyms: Accumulation, Aggregation, Assemblage, Collection
Specialized synonyms: Aggregate, Congeries, Conglomeration
Derivative terms: Sum, Summate, Summate, Summational
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sum Total
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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