amount

Meanings

Noun

• The total, aggregate or sum of material .
• A quantity or volume.
• The number (the sum) of elements in a set.

Verb

• To total or evaluate.
• To be the same as or equivalent to.
• To go up; to ascend.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• notional amount
• principal amount

Origin

• From Middle English amounten ("to mount up to, come up to, signify"), from Old French amonter ("to amount to"), from amont, amunt, from the prepositional phrase a mont, from Latin ad montem, from ad + montem, accusative of mons.