Meanings
plural amounts
- A quantity or volume.
The dogs need different amounts of food.
2 more examples
Pour a small amount of water into the dish.
The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.[…]who, if anyone, is policing their use[?] Such concerns were sharpened further by the continuing revelations about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help it interpret the colossal amounts of data it has collected from its covert dragnet of international telecommunications.
2013 July 26, Leo Hickman, “How algorithms rule the world”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2025, page 26
present singular third person amounts · participle present amounting · participle past amounted · past amounted
- intransitivewith toTo be the tantamount to; to reach up to the level of.
His response amounted to gross insubordination.
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He was a pretty good student, but never amounted to much professionally.
It was, however, J.R.R. Tolkien who pointed out the close relationship in language as well as spelling, almost amounting to identity, between the Corpus MS of the Ancrene Riwle (A) and the Bodley MS of the Katherine Group (B).
1965, Arne Zettersten, Studies in the dialect and vocabulary of the Ancrene Riwle (Lund Studies in English; 31), Lund: C. W. K. Gleerup, page 21"The breadth of this LPR system is spectacular and amounts to a warrantless search."
2023 July 24, Chris Eberhart, “NY police used AI to track drivers on highways as attorney questions legality”, in Fox News, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2023
Synonyms & antonyms
nounhow much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
- Proto-Italic*ad
- Latinad
- Old Frencha
- Proto-Indo-European*men-
- Proto-Indo-European*móntis
- Proto-Italic*monts
- Latinmōns
- Old Frenchmont
- Old Frenchamont
- Old Frenchamonter
- Middle Englishamounten
- Englishamount
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”).
More words from Middle English, Old French, Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic مَبْلَغ, مِقْدَار
- مَبْلَغ (mablaḡ)total or sum of items
- مِقْدَار (miqdār)total or sum of items
- بَلَغَ (balaḡa)to total or evaluate
- سَاوَى (sāwā)to be the same as
- عَادَلَ (ʕādala)to be the same as
Basque suma
- sumatotal or sum of items
Bengali মাত্রা, পরিমাণ
- মাত্রা (matra)total or sum of items
- পরিমাণ (poriman)total or sum of items
Bulgarian коли́чество, су́ма
- коли́чество (kolíčestvo)total or sum of items
- су́ма (súma)total or sum of items
- сбор (sbor)total or sum of items
- коли́чество (kolíčestvo)quantity or volume
- съставлявам (săstavljavam)to total or evaluate
- възлизам на (văzlizam na)to total or evaluate
Catalan quantitat
- quantitattotal or sum of items
Chinese Mandarin 數量 /数量, 量
- 數量 /数量 (shùliàng)total or sum of items
- 量 (liàng)total or sum of items
- 數字 /数字 (shùzì)total or sum of items
- 額 /额 (é)total or sum of items
- 总计 (zǒngjì)to total or evaluate
- 合计to total or evaluate
- 等于 (děngyú)to be the same as
Czech množství, množství
- množstvítotal or sum of items
- množstvíquantity or volume
Danish antal, sum
- antaltotal or sum of items
- sumtotal or sum of items
- beløbtotal or sum of items
- mængdetotal or sum of items
- målquantity or volume
- mængdequantity or volume
- beløbe sigto total or evaluate
- løbe opto total or evaluate
- være det sammeto total or evaluate
- være ensbetydendeto total or evaluate
Dutch hoeveelheid, bedrag
- hoeveelheidtotal or sum of items
- bedragtotal or sum of items
- saldototal or sum of items
- hoeveelheidquantity or volume
- bedragento total or evaluate
- komen opto total or evaluate
- uitkomen opto total or evaluate
Esperanto monsumo, kvanto
- monsumototal or sum of items
- kvantoquantity or volume
Estonian kogus, summa
- kogustotal or sum of items
- summatotal or sum of items
Finnish määrä, lukumäärä
- määrätotal or sum of items
- lukumäärätotal or sum of items
- määräquantity or volume
- olla yhteensäto total or evaluate
- vastatato be the same as
- ollato be the same as
French montant, somme
- montanttotal or sum of items
- sommetotal or sum of items
- quantitéquantity or volume
- monterto total or evaluate
- correspondreto be the same as
German Anzahl, Menge
- Anzahltotal or sum of items
- Mengetotal or sum of items
- Betragtotal or sum of items
- Mengequantity or volume
- sich belaufen aufto total or evaluate
- betragento total or evaluate
Greek σύνολο, ποσότητα
- σύνολο (sýnolo)total or sum of items
- ποσότητα (posótita)quantity or volume
- ποσό (posó)quantity or volume
- ανέρχομαι (anérchomai)to total or evaluate
- ισοδυναμώ (isodynamó)to be the same as
Hebrew סְכוּם
- סְכוּם (s'khum)total or sum of items
Hindi मात्रा
- मात्रा (mātrā)total or sum of items
Hungarian összeg, mennyiség
- összegtotal or sum of items
- mennyiségquantity or volume
- kiteszto total or evaluate
- rúgto total or evaluate
- felérto be the same as
Icelandic magn
- magntotal or sum of items
Indonesian jumlah
- jumlahtotal or sum of items
Irish suim
- suimtotal or sum of items
Italian ammontare, quantità
- ammontaretotal or sum of items
- quantitàquantity or volume
- ammontareto total or evaluate
Japanese 総量, 量
- 総量 (sōryō)total or sum of items
- 量 (ryō)total or sum of items
- 数量 (sūryō)total or sum of items
- 量 (ryō)quantity or volume
- 合計する (gōkē suru)to total or evaluate
Korean 양, 량
- 양 (yang)total or sum of items
- 량 (ryang)total or sum of items
- 수량 (suryang)total or sum of items
Latin quantitās
- quantitāsquantity or volume
Latvian summa, daudzums
- summatotal or sum of items
- daudzumstotal or sum of items
- daudzumsquantity or volume
Lithuanian suma, kiekis
- sumatotal or sum of items
- kiekistotal or sum of items
- kiekisquantity or volume
Malay jumlah
- jumlahtotal or sum of items
Norwegian Bokmål mengde
- mengdetotal or sum of items
Persian معادل بودن
- معادل بودن (mo'âdel budan)to be the same as
Polish ilość, liczba
- ilośćtotal or sum of items
- liczbatotal or sum of items
- kwotatotal or sum of items
- sumatotal or sum of items
- ilośćquantity or volume
- liczbaquantity or volume
- kwotaquantity or volume
- wynieśćto total or evaluate
- dawaćto total or evaluate
- wynieśćto be the same as
- być równoznacznym zto be the same as
Portuguese quantidade, quantia
- quantidadetotal or sum of items
- quantiatotal or sum of items
- quantidadequantity or volume
- quantiaquantity or volume
- atingirto total or evaluate
- importar ato total or evaluate
- chegar ato total or evaluate
Romanian sumă, valoare
- sumătotal or sum of items
- valoaretotal or sum of items
- cantitatequantity or volume
- măsurăquantity or volume
- evaluato total or evaluate
Russian коли́чество, су́мма
- коли́чество (kolíčestvo)total or sum of items
- су́мма (súmma)total or sum of items
- коли́чество (kolíčestvo)quantity or volume
Scottish Gaelic suim
- suimtotal or sum of items
Slovak množstvo, množstvo
- množstvototal or sum of items
- množstvoquantity or volume
- byťto total or evaluate
- rovnaťto total or evaluate
- znamenaťto be the same as
Spanish cantidad, monto
- cantidadtotal or sum of items
- montototal or sum of items
- montantetotal or sum of items
- importetotal or sum of items
- cantidadquantity or volume
- cuantíaquantity or volume
- montoquantity or volume
- montantequantity or volume
- equivalerto total or evaluate
- ascender / sumarse ato total or evaluate
- equivaler ato be the same as
Swedish mängd, mängd
- mängdtotal or sum of items
- mängdquantity or volume
- belöpa sigto total or evaluate
- uppgåto total or evaluate
Thai จำนวนรวม, รวม
- จำนวนรวม (jam-nuuan ruuam)total or sum of items
- รวม (ruuam)total or sum of items
- จำนวน (jam-nuuan)total or sum of items
Turkish miktar
- miktartotal or sum of items
Ukrainian кі́лькість, су́ма
- кі́лькість (kílʹkistʹ)total or sum of items
- су́ма (súma)total or sum of items
- число (čyslo)total or sum of items
- кі́лькість (kílʹkistʹ)quantity or volume
Urdu رَقَم, مِقْدار
- رَقَم (raqam)total or sum of items
- مِقْدار (miqdār)total or sum of items
- مَبْلَغ (mablaġ)total or sum of items
- مِقْدار (miqdār)quantity or volume
Vietnamese số lượng, lượng
- số lượngtotal or sum of items
- lượngtotal or sum of items
Yiddish סומע
- סומע (sume)total or sum of items
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with amount
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Cite this entry
amount. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/amount
“amount.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/amount. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “amount,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/amount.
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