amount
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Is amount a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of amount?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (nonstandard, sometimes proscribed) The number (the sum) of elements in a set.Examples: "The final amount of students who have participated to mobility for the period 1995-1999 is held to be around 460 000."nonstandardproscribedsometimes
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, followed by to) To total or evaluate.Examples: "The money in my pocket amounts to three dollars and change."intransitivewith-to
2. (intransitive, followed by to) To be the tantamount to; to reach up to the level of.Examples: "He was a pretty good student, but never amounted to much professionally."; "His response amounted to gross insubordination."; "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)."intransitivewith-to
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To go up; to ascend.Examples: "So up he rose, and thence amounted straight."intransitiveobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary