amount
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
amount/əˈmaʊnt/
▶noun the total of something in number, size, value, or extent: he paid the full amount owed.
■ a quantity: a small amount of water.
▶verb (amount to)- 1 come to be (a total) when added together.
- 2 be the equivalent of.
– phrases
any amount of a great deal or number of.
any amount of a great deal or number of.
– origin ME: from OFr. amunter, from amont ‘upward’, lit. ‘uphill’, from L. ad montem.
'amount' also found in these Oxford entries:
above
- abundance
- accelerate
- account
- acre
- add
- advance
- allotment
- allowance
- ante
- as
- ask
- assure
- astronomical
- atom
- attain
- average
- bag
- balance
- bean
- beer money
- bellyful
- below
- beyond
- billion
- billon
- blank cheque
- boil
- book token
- breathalyser
- British thermal unit
- bucketload
- budget
- bunch
- bundle
- by
- c
- ca
- cake
- calorific
- calorimeter
- capacity
- capitation
- carbo-load
- carbon footprint
- cash flow
- cash register
- catch
- charge
