Noun: sum
| Singular | sum |
| Plural | sums; sumy |
Sample Sentences
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The sum of 3 and 4 is 7.
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Take yee the ſumme of all the Congregation of the children of Iſrael,[…] [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 1:2, columns 1–2:]
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"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing." [a. 2004, Jimmy Wales, quotee, “Wikipedia:Prime objective”, in Wikipedia:]
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We're learning about division, and the sums are tricky.
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[…] a large sheet of paper […] covered with long sums […] [1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, “The Emigrants”, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 572:]
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‘But enough of doing sums for to-day, and what about that procession?’ ‘I’m on,’ said Egbert. [1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 11:]
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"I think it was a disgraceful performance from a captain that got his sums wrong today, and I think it should never be permitted to happen again." [1981, Lisa Valentin, quoting Richie Benaud, “The day Richie Benaud stood up for principle over patriotism”, in Stuff, published 11 April 2015:]
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a tidy sum
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the sum of forty pounds
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[…]With a great ſumme obteined I this freedome. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 22:28, column 1:]
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Merchant Opold: This one promised compensation for services rendered. It humbly suggests that a sum of 250 credits would be most appropriate.
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Shepard: Would you have had any chance of getting this past customs without me? You can be a bit more generous.
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Merchant Opold: The other's words possess the discomforting ring of truth.
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Merchant Opold: This one could raise the sum to 500 credits. That is half this one's profit taken by the other. It can offer no more. [2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Noveria:]
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This is the sum of all the evidence in the case.
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This is the sum and substance of his objections.
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Thus I have told thee all my State, and brought / My Storie to the ſum of earthly bliſs[…] [1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 1158–1159:]
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Our wisdom and skill cannot save us from accidents, pains, and from that sum of all fears and distresses—death. [1877, Rev. Thomas H. Leale, chapter 2, in A Homiletic Commentary on the Book of Ecclesiastes, page 32:]
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The sum is also used for the quarter, and the strike for the bushel. [1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 207:]
Nouns inflected like sum
samizdat,
sarafan,
microraion,
prospekt,
mikroraion,
okruh,
uyezd,
kylym,
volhv,
sum,
raion,
smerd,
kolhosp,
klobasnik,
rushnyk,
didukh,
diduch,
amanat,
lirnyk,
kholop, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English summe, from Old French summe, from Latin summa (“highest point; sum”), from summus (“highest”). See: Middle English Nouns '
summe', Latin Nouns '
summa'.