amount

English

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Etymology

From Middle English amounten (“to mount up to, come up to, signify”), from Old French amonter (“to amount to”), from amont, amunt (“uphill, upward”), from the prepositional phrase a mont (“toward or to a mountain or heap”), from Latin ad montem, from ad (“to”) + montem, accusative of mons (“mountain”).

Pronunciation

Noun

amount (plural amounts)

  1. The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
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  1. A quantity or volume.
    Pour a small amount of water into the dish.
    The dogs need different amounts of food.
  2. (nonstandard, sometimes proscribed) The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
    • 2001, Gisella Gori, Towards an EU right to education, page 195:
      The final amount of students who have participated to mobility for the period 1995-1999 is held to be around 460 000.

Derived terms

Translations

total or sum of items
quantity or volume
number of elements in a set — see number
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Verb

amount (third-person singular simple present amounts, present participle amounting, simple past and past participle amounted)

  1. (intransitive) To total or evaluate.
    It amounts to three dollars and change.
  2. (intransitive) To be the same as or equivalent to.
    He was a pretty good student, but never amounted to much professionally.
    His response amounted to gross insubordination
  3. (obsolete, intransitive) To go up; to ascend.
    • Spenser
      So up he rose, and thence amounted straight.

Derived terms

  • amount to

Translations

to total or evaluate
to be the same as
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