mount
UK/maʊnt/
mount noun: a hill or mountain.
Noun (1)
mount (plural mounts)
- A hill or mountain.
- Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly bodies.
- the mount of Jupiter
- Synonyms:
- mons
- A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound.
- ⸿ For thus hath the Lord of hoſtes said ; Hew yee downe trees and ‖ caſt a mount againſt Jeruſalem : this is the citie to be viſited, ſhe is wholly oppreſſion in the midſt of her.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 6:6, columns 2–1
- A bank; a fund.
- A green hillock in the base of a shield.
Noun (2)
mount (plural mounts)
- An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on.
- The rider climbed onto his mount.
- Synonyms:
- steed
- A car, bicycle, or motorcycle used for racing.
- A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted.
- The post is the mount on which the mailbox is installed.
- A rider in a cavalry unit or division.
- The General said he has 2,000 mounts.
- A step or block to assist in mounting a horse.
- A signal for mounting a horse.
- A dominant ground grappling position, where one combatant sits on the other combatants torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head.
- The act of getting onto the apparatus.
Verb
mount (third-person singular simple present mounts, present participle mounting, simple past and past participle mounted)
- To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
- to mount stairs
- Or shall we mount again the Rural Throne,
And rule the Country Kingdoms, once our own?1697, Virgil, “(please specify the page)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
- To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride.
- The rider mounted his horse.
- To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding.
- to mount the Trojan troop1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
- To cause (something) to rise or ascend; to drive up; to raise; to elevate; to lift up.
- What power is it which mounts my love so high?c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- To sit on a combatant's torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head; to assume the mount position in ground grappling.
- To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; often with up.
- Though Babylon ſhould mount vp to heauen, and though ſhee ſhould fortifie the height of her ſtrength, yet from me ſhall ſpoilers come vnto her, ſaith the Lord.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 51:53, column 1
- The fire of trees and houses mounts on high.1656, Abraham Cowley, Davideis
- To attach (an object) to a support, backing, framework etc.
- to mount a mailbox on a post
- to mount a specimen on a small plate of glass for viewing by a microscope
- To attach (a drive or device) to the file system in order to make it available to the operating system.
- Burn the contents of the staging area onto a writable CD-ROM, carry it over to the Web server, and mount it.1998, Lincoln D. Stein, Web Security: A Step-by-step Reference Guide, page 377
- To increase in quantity or intensity.
- The bills mounted up and the business failed. There is mounting tension in Crimea.
- Synonyms:
- build
- To attain in value; to amount (to).
- Bring then these blessings to a strict account,
Make fair deductions, see to what they mount.1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC
- Bring then these blessings to a strict account,
- To get on top of (another) for the purpose of copulation.
- When God presented Lilith to Adam, Adam was overjoyed and enthusiastically set her on the ground and tried to mount her after the fashion of the animals; but Lilith protested and said: "Why should I be on the bottom and you on the top?"1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 16
- To have or begin sexual intercourse with someone.
- She mounted him last night.
- Synonyms:
- coitize
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- To begin (a campaign, military assault, etc.); to launch.
- The General gave the order to mount the attack.
- For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport
- To deploy (cannon) for use.
- to mount a cannon
- To prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc. for use in (a play or production).
- To incorporate fat, especially butter, into (a dish, especially a sauce to finish it).
- Mount the sauce with one tablespoon of butter.
Proper noun capitalized: Mount
Mount (countable and uncountable, plural Mounts)
mount meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
mount in Hindi
- horse
- घोड़ा ghoṛā, अश्व aśva
- a mounting
- चढ़ना caṛhnā, चढ़ाई caṛhāī
- to get upon; to ascend; to climb
- चढ़ना caṛhnā
- to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride
- चढ़ना caṛhnā
mount in Tamil
- மூட்டு
mount in Marathi
- माउंट, माउंट करा, माऊंट
mount in Urdu
- to mount
- چڑھنا caṛhnā
More languagesFewer languages
- mount in Bengali
- চাপা capa, চড়া coṛa
- mount in Telugu
- ఎక్కు ekku
- mount in Malayalam
- കുതിരപ്പുറത്ത് കയറുക
- mount in Kannada
- ಏರು ēru
- mount in Punjabi
- ਮੜ੍ਹਨਾ maṛhnā
- mount in Gujarati
- ચઢવું caḍhvũ
- mount in Odia
- ମାଉଣ୍ଟ, ମାଉଣ୍ଟ କରନ୍ତୁ, ମାଉନ୍ଟ କରନ୍ତୁ
- mount in Sanskrit
- स्तिघ्नोति stighnóti, रोहति róhati
- mount in Assamese
- উঠা utha
- mount in Nepali
- माउन्ट, माउण्ट, माउन्ट गर्न
- mount in Arabic
- رَكِبَ rakiba
- mount in Malay
- cagak
- mount in Indonesian
- tunggangan
Examples of mount in a sentence
- to mount a photograph on cardboard
- to mount an engine in a car
- As the Wafer digeſted, the Tincture mounted to his Brain, bearing the Propoſition along with it.1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Permitted to See the Grand Academy of Lagado. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations...
- He spends his days flitting through the woods with his shot-gun and his butterfly-net, and his evenings in mounting the many specimens he has acquired.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- Corals mount a two-stage response to heat stress, first bleaching and then dying.2023 August 7, Clive Cookson, “Missing ice and bleached coral: the sudden warming of the oceans”, in Financial Times:
- A Bolivian general has been arrested and accused of mounting a coup against the government after attempting to storm the presidential palace on Wednesday.2024 July 27, “Bolivian general arrested and accused of coup after dramatic showdown with president”, in edition.cnn.com:
Synonyms of mount
Antonyms
Forms of mount
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | mounts |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | mounts |
| present participle | mounting |
| past participle | mounted |
| past | mounted |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Mounts |
Origin of mount
From Middle English mount, munt, from Old English munt, from Latin mōns (“a hill, mountain”), from a root seen also in ēmineō (“to project, to protrude”) (English eminent). Doublet of mons. Not related to mound.
From Middle English mounten, from Anglo-Norman munter, from Vulgar Latin *montāre (“climb”), from Latin montem (“mountain”). Compare modern French monter.
English surname, from the noun mount.
Words formed from mount
- Boona Mount
- Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia
- Fitzgeralds Mount
- Lower Mount Walker
- marchmount
- Marshall Mount
- Marys Mount
- montuous
- Mount Abundance
- Mount Adams
- Mount Adrah
- Mount Alexander
- Mount Alford
- Mount Alfred
- Mount Alma
- Mount Anketell
- Mount Annan
- Mount Aquila
- Mount Archer
- Mount Arlington
- Mount Arthur
- Mount Atkinson
- Mount Austin
- Mount Ayr
- Mount Barker
- Mount Barker Junction
- Mount Barker Springs
- Mount Barker Summit
- Mount Barney
- Mountbatten
- Mount Batten
- Mount Beauty
- Mount Beckworth
- Mount Benson
- Mount Beppo
- Mount Berryman
- Mount Best
- Mount Bethel
- Mount Bindango
- Mount Binga
- Mount Bolton
- Mount Borah
- Mount Britton
- Mount Bruno
- Mount Bryan
- Mount Bryan East
- Mount Budd
- Mount Buffalo
- Mount Buller
- Mount Bundey
- Mount Bures
- Mount Burges
- Mount Burnett
- Mount Burr
- Mount Burrell
- Mount Bute
- Mount Byron
- Mount Camel
- Mount Cameron
- Mount Carbine
Phrases with mount
- mount up
- Mount Dee
- Mount Emu
- Mount Ida
- Mount Isa
- Mount Joy
- Mount Tai
- Mount Tam
- wet mount
- Mount Airy
- Mount Cole
- Mount Data
163 more phrasesFewer phrases
- Mount Deli
- Mount Dora
- Mount Emei
- Mount Etna
- Mount Fuji
- Mount Hood
- Mount Hope
- Mount Long
- Mount Lung
- Mount Omei
- Mount T'ai
- Mount View
- Mount Zion
- post mount
- flush mount
- motor mount
- Mount Athos
- Mount Baldy
- Mount Clear
- Mount Colah
- Mount David
- Mount Davis
- Mount Delly
- Mount Doran
- Mount Eliza
- Mount Fairy
- Mount Field
- Mount Frome
- Mount Gough
- Mount Gould
- Mount Hagen
- Mount Helen
- Mount Hicks
- Mount Holly
- Mount Horeb
- Mount Keira
- Mount Kisco
- Mount Lewis
- Mount Lloyd
- Mount Lofty
- Mount Logan
- Mount Lorne
- Mount Major
- Mount Marsh
- Mount Mayon
- Mount Mogan
- Mount Olive
- Mount Pearl
- mount point
- Mount Putuo
- Mount Rowan
- Mount Royal
- Mount Sharp
- Mount Tabor
- Mount Tomah
- Mount Union
- Mount White
- Riker mount
- Rocky Mount
- shock mount
- strap mount
- bridge mount
- engine mount
- Mount Butler
- Mount Caburn
- Mount Carmel
- Mount Cooper
- Mount Currie
- Mount Desert
- Mount Diablo
- Mount Druitt
- Mount Dryden
- Mount Duneed
- Mount Eccles
- Mount Edziza
- Mount Elbert
- Mount Elliot
- Mount Erebus
- Mount Evelyn
- Mount Forbes
- Mount Foster
- Mount George
- Mount Gilead
- Mount Harris
- Mount Hebron
- Mount Helena
- Mount Hermon
- Mount Hunter
- Mount Hutton
- Mount Irvine
- Mount Jewett
- Mount Kelsey
- Mount Kembla
- Mount Laguna
- Mount Lambie
- Mount Laurel
- Mount Magnet
- Mount Martha
- Mount Morgan
- Mount Moriac
- Mount Moriah
- Mount Murray
- Mount Napier
- Mount Nelson
- Mount Olivet
- Mount Ousley
- Mount Parker
- Mount Pavlof
- mount points
- Mount Rankin
- Mount Roland
- Mount Rumney
- Mount Sabine
- Mount Shasta
- Mount Sidley
- Mount Sopris
- Mount Stuart
- Mount Sylvia
- Mount Tassie
- Mount Taylor
- Mount Vernon
- Mount Werong
- Mount Wilson
- Tannas Mount
- Temple Mount
- Mount Carroll
- Mount Clemens
- Mount Collins
- Mount Darragh
- Mount Egerton
- Mount Everest
- Mount Florida
- Mount Glasgow
- Mount Hampden
- Mount Hooghly
- Mount Hubbard
- Mount Kellett
- Mount Knowles
- Mount Lebanon
- Mount Lindsey
- Mount Lonarch
- Mount Macedon
- Mount Marsden
- Mount Megiddo
- Mount Penglai
- Mount Poinsur
- Mount Rainier
- Mount Ruapehu
- Mount Russell
- Mount Seaview
- Mount Seymour
- Mount Stephen
- Mount Stewart
- Mount Sunapee
- Mount Thorley
- Mount Tsurugi
- Mount Vincent
- Mount Wallace
- Mount Warning
- Mount Whitney
- Mount William
- Rockley Mount
- surface mount
Words that rhyme with mount
Questions about mount
- What does mount mean?
- Mount means a hill or mountain.
- What is mount in Hindi?
- Mount in Hindi is घोड़ा (ghoṛā), अश्व (aśva), चढ़ना (caṛhnā). See Mount meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use mount in a sentence?
- to mount a photograph on cardboard
- What part of speech is mount?
- Mount can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce mount?
- Mount is pronounced /maʊnt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of mount?
- The plural of mount is mounts.
Words near mount in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mount (page history and authors); Mount (page history and authors); mount (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mount (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); چڑھنا (Urdu) (page history and authors); চড়া (Bengali) (page history and authors); mount (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ಏರು (Kannada) (page history and authors); ਮੜ੍ਹਨਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); ચઢવું (Gujarati) (page history and authors); mount (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); रोहति (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); mount (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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