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amount
English
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
- enPR: ?.mount', IPA(key): /??ma?nt/
- Rhymes: -a?nt
Noun
amount (plural amounts)
- The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
- A quantity or volume.
- (nonstandard, sometimes proscribed) The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
Hyponyms
- notional amount
- principal amount
Derived terms
- paramount
Translations
Verb
amount (third-person singular simple present amounts, present participle amounting, simple past and past participle amounted)
- (intransitive, followed by to) To total or evaluate.
- It amounts to three dollars and change.
- (intransitive, followed by to) 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.
Translations
See also
- extent
- magnitude
- measurement
- number
- quantity
- size
Further reading
- amount in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- amount in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- amount at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- mantou, moutan, outman, tomaun
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dollar
English
Etymology
Attested since about 1500, from early Dutch daler, daalder, from German Taler, Thaler (“dollar”), from Sankt Joachimsthaler, literally "of Joachimstal," the name for coins minted in German Sankt Joachimsthal (“St. Joachim's Valley”) (now Jáchymov, Czech Republic). Ultimately from Joachim + Tal (“valley”). Cognate to Danish daler. Doublet of taler.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?d?l?/, /?d??l?/
- (General American) enPR: däl??r, IPA(key): /?d?l?/
- (Canada, sometimes US) IPA(key): /d?l?/
- Rhymes: -?l?(r)
- Hyphenation: dol?lar
Noun
dollar (plural dollars)
- Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.
- (by extension) Money generally.
- 2002, Marcella Ridlen Ray, Changing and Unchanging Face of United States Civil Society
- Television, a favored source of news and information, pulls the largest share of advertising monies. In 1935, newspapers received 45 percent of the advertising dollar, magazines 8 percent, and radio 7 percent.
- 2002, Marcella Ridlen Ray, Changing and Unchanging Face of United States Civil Society
- (Britain, colloquial, historical) A quarter of a pound or one crown, historically minted as a coin of approximately the same size and composition as a then-contemporary dollar coin of the United States, and worth slightly more.
- 1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “Born at the Right Time”, The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.
- We like to go down to restaurant row / Spend those euro-dollars / All the way from Washington to Tokyo
- 1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “Born at the Right Time”, The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.
- (attributive, historical) Imported from the United States, and paid for in U.S. dollars. (Note: distinguish "dollar wheat", North American farmers' slogan, meaning a market price of one dollar per bushel.)
- 1952 Brigadier Sir Harry Mackeson, House of Commons, London; Hansard, vol 504, col 271, 22 July 1952:
- The restricted purchase of dollar tobacco will, we hope, have the effect of increasing the imports of Turkish and Grecian tobacco
- 1956, The Spectator, Vol. 197, page 342:
- For there are two luxury imports that lead all the others: dollar films and dollar tobacco.
- 1952 Brigadier Sir Harry Mackeson, House of Commons, London; Hansard, vol 504, col 271, 22 July 1952:
Coordinate terms
afghani, ariary, baht, balboa, birr, bitcoin, bolivar, boliviano, cedi, colon, cordoba, dalasi, dinar, dirham, dobra, dogecoin, dong, dram, escudo, euro, florin, forint, franc, gourde, guarani, guilder, hryvnia, kina, kip, koruna, krona/króna/kronor/krone, kuna, kwacha, kwanza, kyat, lari, lek, lempira, leone, leu, lev, lilangeni, lira, litas, Litecoin, manat, mark, markka, metical, naira, nakfa, ngultrum, ouguiya, pa?anga, pataca, peso, pound, pula, quetzal, rand, rial, rial/riyal, riel, ringgit, ruble, rufiyaa, rupee, rupiah, scudo, shekel, shilling, sol, som, somoni, sterling, taka, tala, tenge, togrog, vatu, won, yen, yuan, zloty
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
See also
- cent
- dale
- mill
- mille
- vale
- valley
Anagrams
- old ral
Danish
Etymology
From English dollar, from German Taler, Thaler. Doublet of daler.
Noun
dollar c (singular definite dollaren, plural indefinite dollar)
- a dollar (monetary unit)
Declension
References
- “dollar” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English dollar, from early Dutch daler, daalder.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?l?r/
- Hyphenation: dol?lar
Noun
dollar m (plural dollars, diminutive dollartje n)
- dollar (currency, especially the US dollar)
Derived terms
- dollarteken
Related terms
- daalder
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ?? (doru)
French
Etymology
From English dollar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?.la?/
Noun
dollar m (plural dollars)
- dollar
Derived terms
Further reading
- “dollar” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Irish
Etymology
From English dollar, from early Dutch daler, daalder, from German Taler, Thaler (“dollar”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d???l?????/
Noun
dollar m (genitive singular dollair, nominative plural dollair)
- dollar
Declension
Mutation
Further reading
- "dollar" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Middle Low German daler, via English dollar
Noun
dollar m (definite singular dollaren, indefinite plural dollar, definite plural dollarene)
- a dollar (monetary unit)
Derived terms
- dollarseddel
References
- “dollar” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Middle Low German daler, via English dollar
Noun
dollar m (definite singular dollaren, indefinite plural dollar, definite plural dollarane)
- a dollar (monetary unit)
References
- “dollar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Etymology
From English dollar.
Noun
dollar c
- dollar
Declension
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