Amount Definition
ə-mount
amounted, amounting, amounts
noun
amounts
The total of two or more quantities; the aggregate.
American Heritage
The sum of two or more quantities; total.
Webster's New World
A number; a sum.
American Heritage
The whole meaning, value, or effect.
Webster's New World
A principal plus its interest, as in a loan.
American Heritage
verb
amounted, amounting, amounts
To add up in number or quantity.
The purchases amounted to 50 dollars.
American Heritage
To add up (to); equal in total.
The bill amounts to $4.50
Webster's New World
To add up in import or effect.
That plan will never amount to anything.
American Heritage
To be equal (to) in meaning, value, or effect.
Her failure to reply amounts to a refusal.
Webster's New World
To be equivalent or tantamount.
Accusations that amount to an indictment.
American Heritage
Origin of Amount
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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”).
From Wiktionary
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From Middle English amounten to ascend from Old French amonter from amont upward from Latin ad montem to the hill ad to ad- in Indo-European roots mōns mont- hill men-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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