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SUM TOTAL

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The final aggregate

Example:

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

Synonyms:

sum; sum total; summation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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)

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