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

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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

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Other Word Forms of Amount

Singular:

amount

Plural:

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
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