English Explanatory Dictionary

mount

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A hill or mountain.
  2. Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly bodies.
  3. A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound.
  4. A bank; a fund.
  5. A green hillock in the base of a shield.
noun
  1. An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on.
  2. A car, bicycle, or motorcycle used for racing.
  3. A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted.
  4. A rider in a cavalry unit or division.
  5. A step or block to assist in mounting a horse.
  6. A signal for mounting a horse.
  7. A dominant ground grappling position, where one combatant sits on the other combatants torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head.
  8. The act of getting onto the apparatus.
verb
  1. To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
  2. To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride.
  3. To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding.
  4. To cause (something) to rise or ascend; to drive up; to raise; to elevate; to lift up.
  5. To sit on a combatant's torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head; to assume the mount position in ground grappling.
  6. To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; often with up.
  7. To attach (an object) to a support, backing, framework etc.
  8. To attach (a drive or device) to the file system in order to make it available to the operating system.
  9. To increase in quantity or intensity.
  10. To attain in value; to amount (to).
  11. To get on top of (another) for the purpose of copulation.
  12. To have or begin sexual intercourse with someone.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. A hamlet in Perranzabuloe parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW7856).
  3. A hamlet in Warleggan parish, east Cornwall (OS grid ref SX1468).

Pronunciation

/maʊnt/ [maʊnt] [maʊnʔ] [mãʊ̃(n)ʔ] En-us-mount.ogg

Word forms

mount mounts mounting mounted

Etymology

From Middle English mount, munt, from Old English munt, from Latin mōns (“a hill, mountain”), from a root seen also in ēmineō (“to project, to protrude”) (English eminent). Doublet of mons. Not related to mound.

Synonyms

mons steed go to bed with sleep with build coitize

Antonyms

dismount demount unmount

Related words

mont amount mountain paramount surmount

Derived words

Boona Mount Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia Fitzgeralds Mount Lower Mount Walker marchmount Marshall Mount Marys Mount montuous Mount Abundance Mount Adams Mount Adrah Mount Alexander Mount Alford Mount Alfred Mount Alma Mount Anketell Mount Annan Mount Aquila Mount Archer Mount Arlington Mount Arthur Mount Atkinson Mount Austin Mount Ayr Mount Barker Mount Barker Junction Mount Barker Springs Mount Barker Summit Mount Barney Mountbatten Mount Batten Mount Beauty Mount Beckworth Mount Benson Mount Beppo Mount Berryman Mount Best Mount Bethel Mount Bindango Mount Binga Mount Bolton Mount Borah Mount Britton Mount Bruno Mount Bryan Mount Bryan East Mount Budd Mount Buffalo Mount Buller Mount Bundey Mount Bures Mount Burges Mount Burnett Mount Burr Mount Burrell Mount Bute Mount Byron Mount Camel Mount Cameron Mount Carbine

Translations

Albanian: kalitës Bulgarian: оседлан кон Chinese Mandarin: 馬 /马 Czech: kůň Dutch: rijpaard Esperanto: selĉevalo Finnish: ratsu Finnish: hevonen Finnish: ratsuhevonen French: monture Galician: montura Galician: cabalgadura German: Reitpferd German: Reittier Hindi: घोड़ा Hindi: अश्व Hungarian: paripa Hungarian: ló Indonesian: tunggangan Ingrian: ratsas Ingrian: ratsu Italian: destriero Norwegian Bokmål: ridedyr Norwegian Nynorsk: ridedyr Polish: wierzchowiec Portuguese: montaria Russian: скаку́н Spanish: montura Spanish: caballería Swahili: rikabu Swedish: riddjur Turkish: binek hayvanı
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