sum

1. 1.

   be a summary of

   “The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper”

   Synonymssummarizesummarisesum up

   Broaderstate
2. 2.

   determine the sum of

   “Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town”

   Synonymstotaltottot upsum upsummatetote upaddadd togethertallyadd up

   Broadercount

Other forms of sum

plural

sums·

past tense or participle

summed

present participle

summing

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sum

What does sum mean?

sum means "a quantity of money". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sum?

sum has 1 syllable: sum. In IPA it is /ˈsʌm/.

What is another word for sum?

Close synonyms include sum of money, amount, amount of money, amount, total. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sum a common word?

sum is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with sum?

1 word rhymes with sum. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.