amount
/əˈmaʊnt/
amount noun: the total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
Noun
amount (plural amounts)
- The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
- The amount of atmospheric pollution threatens a health crisis.
- A quantity or volume.
- Pour a small amount of water into the dish.
- The dogs need different amounts of food.
- The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
- The final amount of students who have participated to mobility for the period 1995-1999 is held to be around 460 000.2001, Gisella Gori, Towards an EU right to education, page 195
Verb
amount (third-person singular simple present amounts, present participle amounting, simple past and past participle amounted)
- To total or evaluate.
- The money in my pocket amounts to three dollars and change.
- To be the tantamount to; to reach up to the level of.
- He was a pretty good student, but never amounted to much professionally.
- His response amounted to gross insubordination.
- To go up; to ascend.
- So up he rose, and thence amounted straight.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 54
amount meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
amount in Hindi
- total or sum of items
- मात्रा mātrā
amount in Tamil
- தொகை, மொத்தம், முழுமதிப்பு, அளவு, மொத்தமாகு, தொகையாகு
amount in Marathi
- amount, quantity
- रक्कम rakkam
amount in Urdu
- total or sum of items
- رَقَم raqam, مِقْدار miqdār, مَبْلَغ mablaġ
- quantity or volume
- مِقْدار miqdār
More languagesFewer languages
- amount in Bengali
- মাত্রা matra, পরিমাণ poriman
- amount in Malayalam
- അളവ് aḷavŭ
- amount in Kannada
- ಮೊತ್ತ
- amount in Punjabi
- ਥੋਕ thok, لیکھا lekhā
- amount in Gujarati
- રકમ rakam
- amount in Pashto
- مبلغ mabláǧ, مقدار meqdãr
- amount in Arabic
- مَبْلَغ mablaḡ, مِقْدَار miqdār, سَاوَى sāwā, عَادَلَ ʕādala
- amount in Malay
- jumlah
- amount in Indonesian
- jumlah
- amount in Persian
- معادل بودن mo'âdel budan
- amount in Thai
- จำนวนรวม jam-nuuan ruuam, รวม ruuam, จำนวน jam-nuuan
- amount in Vietnamese
- số lượng, lượng
- amount in Myanmar
- စုစုပေါင်း cu.cu.paung:, အင် ang, သင်္ချာ sanghkya
Examples of amount in a sentence
- In the end, all of our hard work amounted to zero.
- I should determine the minimal amount of egg required to make good mayonnaise.
- Interpreters need a good amount of cultural capital in order to function efficiently in the profession.
Forms of amount
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | amounts |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | amounts |
| present participle | amounting |
| past participle | amounted |
| past | amounted |
Origin of 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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Questions about amount
- What does amount mean?
- Amount means the total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
- What is amount in Hindi?
- Amount in Hindi is मात्रा (mātrā). See Amount meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is amount?
- Amount can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce amount?
- Amount is pronounced /əˈmaʊnt/.
- What is the plural of amount?
- The plural of amount is amounts.
Words near amount in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: amount (page history and authors); amount (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); रक्कम (Marathi) (page history and authors); amount (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); لیکھا (Punjabi) (page history and authors); રકમ (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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