amount

(ə-mount')
n.

1. The total of two or more quantities; the aggregate.
2. A number; a sum.
3. A principal plus its interest, as in a loan.
4. The full effect or meaning; import.
5. Quantity: a great amount of intelligence.

intr.v., a·mount·ed, a·mount·ing, a·mounts.

1. To add up in number or quantity: The purchases amounted to 50 dollars.
2. To add up in import or effect: That plan will never amount to anything.
3. To be equivalent or tantamount: accusations that amount to an indictment.

[From Middle English amounten, to ascend, from Old French amonter, from amont, upward, from Latin ad montem, to the hill : ad, to + mōns, mont-, hill.]

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Amount is normally used with uncountable nouns (i.e. nouns which have no plural) to mean 'quantity' (e.g. a reasonable amount of forgiveness, glue, resistance, straw, etc.), and number with plural nouns (e.g. a certain number of boys, houses, jobs, etc.). Amount, however, is fast breaking into the territory of number, especially when the following plural noun is regarded as an aggregate or collection. Examples:

Fame had magnified the amount of the forces—1849 in Old English (up to 1150)D

I have any amount of letters for you—George Bernard Shaw, 1893

I expect you get a fair amount of road accidents on these winding roads—Rachel Billington, 1988

Billy's had a tremendous amount of problems—T. McGuane, American English 1989

Booksellers have less and less space for the amount of books that are being published—The Author, 1990

The amount of bulbs she would find between the stones next spring—A. Huth, 1991.

Note that quantity can be used with all types of nouns (a large quantity of parcels / a small quantity of sugar).

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noun

1. A number or quantity obtained as a result of addition: aggregate, sum, summation, sum total, total, totality. Archaic tale. See count.
2. The general sense or significance, as of an action or statement: burden, drift, import, purport, substance, tenor. Idioms: sum and substance, sum total. See meaning.
3. A measurable whole: body, budget, bulk, corpus, quantity, quantum. See big/small/amount.

verb

1. To come to in number or quantity: aggregate, number, reach, run into, total. Idioms: add up to. See increase/decrease.
2. To be equivalent or tantamount: constitute, correspond, equal. Idioms: have all the earmarks. See be.

IN BRIEF: The sum total.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - beløb, størrelse, sum
v. intr. - beløbe sig til

idioms:

• amount to    være ensbetydende med
• not amount to a hill of beans    ikke koste en herregård, ikke koste en halv arm

Nederlands (Dutch)
hoeveelheid, bedrag, belang

Français (French)
n. - nombre, quantité, somme, montant, total, (Fin, Comm) à concurrence de, (Fin) dotation, importance, signification
v. intr. - s'élever à, se chiffrer à, se monter à, équivaloir à, se ramener à, se réduire à

idioms:

• amount to    équivaloir à, se monter à, se ramener à, se réduire à, s'élever à, se chiffrer à
• any amount of    tant et plus
• not amount to a hill of beans    ne pas valoir grand chose, ne pas valoir le coup

Deutsch (German)
n. - Menge, Betrag
v. - steigen, betragen

idioms:

• amount to    hinauslaufen auf, betragen, sich belaufen auf
• any amount of    jede Menge (ugs.)
• not amount to a hill of beans    nichts wert sein

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ποσότητα, σύνολο, (οικον.) ποσό, (φυσ.) ποσότητα
v. - ανέρχομαι (σε), συμποσούμαι (σε), ισοδυναμώ (με)

idioms:

• amount to    ανέρχομαι σε, συμποσούμαι σε, ισοδυναμώ με
• not amount to a hill of beans    δεν αξίζει τίποτα

Italiano (Italian)
ammontare, quantità, somma

idioms:

• amount to    valere

Português (Portuguese)
n. - soma (f), quantia (f), total (m), resultado (m)
v. - importar, atingir, equivaler

idioms:

• amount to    ter importância para

Русский (Russian)
количество, сумма

idioms:

• amount to    составлять сумму в, сводиться к

Español (Spanish)
n. - cantidad, monto, suma, importe
v. intr. - montar, sumar, valer

idioms:

• amount to    asciende a, alcanza a, sumar, valer, equivaler a, venir a ser
• any amount of    cualquier cantidad de
• not amount to a hill of beans    totalmente carente de valor, insignificante

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - belopp, mängd
v. - uppgå till, belöpa sig på

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
总额, 数量, 总计, 等于

idioms:

• amount to    总计为, 相当于
• not amount to a hill of beans    一文不值, 不会成功

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 總額, 數量
v. intr. - 總計, 等於

idioms:

• amount to    總計為, 相當於
• not amount to a hill of beans    一文不值, 不會成功

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 총액, 요지, 가치
v. intr. - 이 되다

idioms:

• amount to    이 되다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 総額, 総数, 額, 量
v. - 総計…になる, 結果として…になる

idioms:

• amount to    相当する, 達する
• not amount to a hill of beans    重要ではない

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) مبلغ (فعل) يلغ كذا‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮סכום, כמות‬
v. intr. - ‮הסתכם, היה שווה ל-‬

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