The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
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Sum
Synonyms for "sum" (316 found)
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Closest matches (64)
Strong matches (94)
budgetbulkbunchcalculationcastcast upcenterchunkcipher upclutchcoloringcomputecondenseconnotationconsequencecorecountcount updealdenotation
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detaildifferencedigestdosedrifteffectentiretyentityepitomeepitomizeessenceestimateextensionextentfigurefigure upfootfoot upforcegistgobgrammatical meaninggrandgrand totalgrossgross amountgroupheaphunkideaimpactimplicationimportintegralintegrateintensioninventoryitemizekernellarge amountlexical meaning
Related words (158)
literal meaninglotlump summagnitudemain pointmassmattermeaningmeasuremeasurementmeatmessnumbernumbersnutshellovertonepackparcelpartpertinence
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pithplusplus signpointportionpractical consequenceproductpurportquantityquantumquarterrange of meaningrationreal meaningrecaprecapitulaterecapitulationrecitereckonreckon upreckoningrecountreferencereferentrehearserelaterelationrelevanceresumeround sumrun throughrun-throughrundownscopescorescore upsemantic clustersemantic fieldsensesignificancesignificationsignificatumsignifiesmall amountspan of meaningspiritstrengthstructural meaningstructuresubstancesubtotalsum and substancesum totalsum upsummatesummationsumming upsumming-upsummitsymbolic meaningsynopsizesystemtaletallytally uptenorthe amountthe bottom linethe storythe whole storytottot uptotal uptotalitytotality of associationstotetote uptransferred meaningunadorned meaningundertoneunionvaluewholewhole amountx number
Noun(47 words)
Verb(5 words)
Pronoun(1 words)
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19 entriesShowing 16 of 19 words.
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3 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
11 entriesRelated terms
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
capable of
1 entriesderived
31 entriesShowing 16 of 31 words.
has context
1 entriesis a
4 entriesrelated to
35 entriesShowing 16 of 35 words.
similar
6 entriesTranslations
168 translations across 57 languages.
Albanian
4 entries- njehësim noun (arithmetic problem)
- shumë noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- mbledh verb (to add together)
- nje (gheg) verb (to add together)
Arabic
2 entries- مَبْلَغ noun (quantity of money)
- مَجْمُوع noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
Armenian
2 entries- գումար noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- գումար noun (quantity of money)
Asturian
1 entries- suma noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
Bashkir
1 entries- нәтижә noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
Belarusian
1 entries- су́ма noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
Bulgarian
4 entries- зада́ча noun (arithmetic problem)
- сбор noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- су́ма noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- сума noun (quantity of money)
Catalan
2 entries- suma noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- suma noun (quantity of money)
Cebuano
3 entries- kantidad noun (quantity of money)
- sumada noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- tingob noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 總和 /总和 noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- 總數 /总数 noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- 金額 /金额 noun (quantity of money)
Czech
3 entries- součet noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- suma noun (quantity of money)
- částka noun (quantity of money)
Dutch
4 entries- rekensom noun (arithmetic problem)
- som noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- som noun (arithmetic problem)
- som noun (quantity of money)
Estonian
2 entries- somm noun (basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan)
- somm noun (basic unit of money in Uzbekistan)
Finnish
4 entries- laskutehtävä noun (arithmetic problem)
- summa noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- summa noun (quantity of money)
- laskea yhteen verb (to add together)
French
4 entries- calcul noun (arithmetic problem)
- somme noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- somme noun (quantity of money)
- additionner verb (to add together)
Galician
2 entries- contía noun (quantity of money)
- suma noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
Georgian
4 entries- ოდენობა noun (quantity of money)
- რაოდენობა noun (quantity of money)
- ჯამი noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- აჯამვა verb (to add together)
German
3 entries- Summe noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- Summe noun (quantity of money)
- summieren verb (to add together)
Greek
4 entries- άθροισμα noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- ποσό noun (quantity of money)
- πράξη noun (arithmetic problem)
- αθροίζω verb (to add together)
Hebrew
2 entries- סְכוּם noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- סְכוּם noun (quantity of money)
Hungarian
1 entries- összeg noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
Icelandic
3 entries- samtala noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- summa noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- upphæð noun (quantity of money)
Ingrian
2 entries- summa noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- summa noun (quantity of money)
Italian
4 entries- somma noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- somma noun (arithmetic problem)
- somma noun (quantity of money)
- sommare verb (to add together)
Japanese
2 entries- 総額 noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- 金額 noun (quantity of money)
Kazakh
2 entries- сом noun (basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan)
- сом noun (basic unit of money in Uzbekistan)
Khmer
1 entries- ផលបូក noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
Korean
4 entries- 금액 noun (quantity of money)
- 액수 noun (quantity of money)
- 총화 noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- 합계 noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
Latin
3 entries- summa noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- summa noun (central idea or point)
- summa noun (obsolete: old English measure of corn)
Macedonian
2 entries- збир noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- сума noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
Malay
2 entries- hasil tambah noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- jumlah noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
Malayalam
2 entries- തുക noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- തുക noun (quantity of money)
Māori
3 entries- otinga tāpiri noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- pūranga moni noun (quantity of money)
- tapeke noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- beløp noun (quantity of money)
- sum noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- sum noun (arithmetic problem)
- sum noun (quantity of money)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- beløp noun (quantity of money)
- sum noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- sum noun (quantity of money)
Oromo
1 entries- ida'ama noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
Persian
1 entries- مجموع noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Somm noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
Polish
4 entries- suma noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- suma noun (arithmetic problem)
- suma noun (quantity of money)
- sumować verb (to add together)
Portuguese
4 entries- adição noun (arithmetic problem)
- quantia noun (quantity of money)
- soma noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- soma noun (arithmetic problem)
Quechua
1 entries- qullu noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
Romanian
3 entries- sumă noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- sumă noun (arithmetic problem)
- sumă noun (quantity of money)
Russian
4 entries- зада́ча noun (arithmetic problem)
- су́мма noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- су́мма noun (quantity of money)
- сум noun (basic unit of money in Uzbekistan)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- suim noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- suim noun (quantity of money)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- zbroj noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- zbȋr noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- зби̑р noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
Slovak
1 entries- súčet noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
Slovene
1 entries- vsota noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
Spanish
4 entries- adición noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- cantidad noun (quantity of money)
- suma noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- suma noun (quantity of money)
Swahili
1 entries- jumla noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
Swedish
4 entries- belopp noun (quantity of money)
- kontenta noun (central idea or point)
- kärna noun (central idea or point)
- matematikexempel noun (arithmetic problem)
Tagalog
1 entries- dagup noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
Tibetan
4 entries- ཁྱོན་བསྡོམས noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- ཁྱོན་བསྡོམས noun (quantity of money)
- ཁྱོན་འབོར noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- དངུལ་འབོར noun (quantity of money)
Turkish
4 entries- meblağ noun (quantity of money)
- toplam noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- yekûn noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
- toplamak verb (to add together)
Ugaritic
1 entries- 𐎚𐎂𐎎𐎗 noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
Ukrainian
2 entries- сом noun (basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan)
- су́ма noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
Uyghur
2 entries- سوم noun (basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan)
- سوم noun (basic unit of money in Uzbekistan)
Vietnamese
1 entries- tổng số noun (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
Sample sentences
31 total sentences available.
Cole's Axiom: The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.
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Please sum up your idea.
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The sum came to over 20,000 yen.
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