amount

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   How much there is of something.

   Pour a small amount of water into the dish.

2. 2
   noun

   A total or sum of money.

   Please pay the full amount by the end of the month.

3. 3
   verb

   To add up to a particular total.

   The bills amounted to two thousand dollars.

4. 4
   verb

   To be the same as something in effect, even if not in name.

   Their refusal to answer amounted to an admission of guilt.

Common collocations

• amount to Verb + preposition/particle
• amazing amount Adjective + noun
• outrageous amount Adjective + noun

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Latin ad Old French a Proto-Indo-European *men- Proto-Indo-European *món-tis Proto-Italic *monts Latin mōns Old French mont Old French amont Old French amonterbor. Middle English amounten English amount 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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