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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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entirety
English
Alternative forms
- intirety (archaic)
Etymology
From Old French entiereté, from Latin integrit?s, from integer (“complete, whole”). Doublet of integrity.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?n?ta?.?.??.ti/, /?n-/
- (UK, General New Zealand, General Australian) IPA(key): /?n?ta?.?.??ti/, /-?ta?.?.ti/, /-?t????ti/, /?n-/
Noun
entirety (countable and uncountable, plural entireties)
- The whole; the complete or amount.
- Due to the early rainout, the game will be replayed in its entirety on Friday.
Synonyms
- totality, whole; see also Thesaurus:entirety
Related terms
- entire
Translations
Anagrams
- entierty, eternity, tenerity
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