SUM TOTAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sum total mean? 

• SUM TOTAL (noun)
  The noun SUM TOTAL has 1 sense:

1. the final aggregate

  Familiarity information: SUM TOTAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUM TOTAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The final aggregate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

sum; sum total; summation

Context example:

the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered

Hypernyms ("sum total" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sum total"):

aggregate; congeries; conglomeration (a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together)

 Context examples 

But the trifles cost more than one would imagine, and when she cast up her accounts at the end of the month the sum total rather scared her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Seven hundred a year is a fine thing for a younger brother; and as of course he will still live at home, it will be all for his menus plaisirs; and a sermon at Christmas and Easter, I suppose, will be the sum total of sacrifice.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)