amount
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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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Noun[edit]
amount (plural amounts)
- The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
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- A quantity or volume.
- Pour a small amount of water into the dish.
- The dogs need different amounts of food.
- (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.
- 2001, Gisella Gori, Towards an EU right to education, page 195:
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Translations[edit]
total or sum of items
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quantity or volume
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number of elements in a set — see number
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Verb[edit]
amount (third-person singular simple present amounts, present participle amounting, simple past and past participle amounted)
- (intransitive) To total or evaluate.
- It amounts to three dollars and change.
- (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
- (obsolete, intransitive) To go up; to ascend.
- Spenser
- So up he rose, and thence amounted straight.
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Translations[edit]
to total or evaluate
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to be the same as
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External links[edit]
- amount in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- amount in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- amount at OneLook Dictionary Search
