amount
/əˈmaʊnt/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.13 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
Example Sentences
- "The amount of atmospheric pollution threatens a health crisis."
- "Pour a small amount of water into the dish."
- "The dogs need different amounts of food."
- "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."
- "The final amount of students who have participated to mobility for the period 1995-1999 is held to be around 460 000."
- "The money in my pocket amounts to three dollars and change."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Latin ad Old French a Proto-Indo-European *men- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *móntis Proto-Italic *monts Latin mōns Old French mont Old French amont Old French amonterbor. Middle English amounten English 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”).