Amount
noun, verb ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
"The amount of atmospheric pollution threatens a health crisis."
- 2 how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify wordnet
- 3 A quantity or volume.
"Pour a small amount of water into the dish."
- 4 the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion wordnet
- 5 The number (the sum) of elements in a set. nonstandard, proscribed, sometimes
"The final amount of students who have participated to mobility for the period 1995-1999 is held to be around 460 000."
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- 6 a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers wordnet
- 7 a quantity of money wordnet
- 1 To total or evaluate. intransitive, with-to
"The money in my pocket amounts to three dollars and change."
- 2 to measure up to in kind or quality wordnet
- 3 To be the tantamount to; to reach up to the level of. intransitive, with-to
"He was a pretty good student, but never amounted to much professionally."
- 4 add up in number or quantity wordnet
- 5 To go up; to ascend. intransitive, obsolete
"So up he rose, and thence amounted straight."
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- 6 be tantamount or equivalent to wordnet
Example
More examples"Brian repeatedly told Chris that he owed him a pretty large amount of money."
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”).
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