amount

1. 1.

   be tantamount or equivalent to

   “Her action amounted to a rebellion”

   Narrowermake
2. 2.

   add up in number or quantity

   “The bills amounted to $2,000”

   “The bill came to $2,000”

   Synonymstotalnumberadd upcome

   Broaderbe

   Narrowerwork outoutnumberaveragemake
3. 3.

   develop into

   “This idea will never amount to anything”

   “nothing came of his grandiose plans”

   Synonymscomeadd up

   Broaderbecome

   Narroweraggregate

Other forms of amount

plural

amounts·

past tense

amounted·

present participle

amounting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about amount

What does amount mean?

amount means "a quantity of money". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in amount?

amount has 2 syllables: a-mount. The stress falls on "mount". In IPA it is /əˈmaʊnt/.

What is another word for amount?

Close synonyms include sum, sum of money, amount of money, measure, quantity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is amount a common word?

amount is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with amount?

6 words rhyme with amount. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.