AMOUNT

v. n.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To go up; to ascend. [Obs.] So up he rose, and thence amounted straight. Spenser.

2.
v.

To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; -- with to or unto.

3.
v.

To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as, the testimony amounts to very little.

4.
v.

To signify; to amount to. [Obs.]

5.
n.

The sum total of two or more sums or quantities; the aggregate; the whole quantity; a totality; as, the amount of 7 and 9 is 16; the amount of a bill; the amount of this year's revenue.

6.
n.

The effect, substance, value, significance, or result; the sum; as, the amount of the testimony is this. The whole amount of that enormous fame. Pope.

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