Amount is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for AMOUNT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to come to in total
• To signify; to amount to.
• be tantamount or equivalent to
• add up in number or quantity
• be equal or add up to
NOUN:
• a sum of money
• a quantity of something, especially the total of a thing or things in number, size, value, or extent
• be regarded or classified as; be the equivalent of
• develop into; become
• come to be (the total) when added together
• extent or quantity
• To go up; to ascend.
• To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; -- with to or unto.
• To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as, the testimony amounts to very little.
• 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.
• The effect, substance, value, significance, or result; the sum; as, the amount of the testimony is this.
• a quantity of money
• the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion
• how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
• a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to combine to yield a sum

Words related to AMOUNT

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Words that contain AMOUNT

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How to use AMOUNT in a sentence

• What was necessary was to lay down proportions, not the actual amount of the sum.
• Both for its flowers and fruit, this Nepaul shrub-tree is well worthy of a great amount of trouble to get it established in a cosy corner of the garden.
• It seems that after a certain amount of blue is present in white light, the addition of more makes but little difference in the tint.
• Heath had sent him a note saying that she was about leaving the city and wished to settle her bill, and requested him to call for the amount.
• Consequently, I find myself owing, in loans and debts contracted in this year, to the amount of one hundred and fifty thousand pesos.
• She was therefore put at rest, and treated with milk, slowly lessened in amount.
• Many of these savages ran away leaving behind them everything they possessed in the world, except the scanty amount of clothing they had on.
• Government guards carefully the rights both of land and capital by an immense amount of legislation and administration.
• The force was organized in 1914, shortly after the outbreak of the war and has relieved the men of a large amount of responsibility.
• Nevertheless, now that the time had come a certain amount of courage came with it.
• Gold is very abundant, and no man being allowed to export it, while no merchant goes thence to the main-land, the people accumulate a vast amount.
• They really save more labor than steam, giving the greatest amount of food from a given piece of ground with the least labor.
• Let me take this occasion of adding that the taxation among the tribe I became acquainted with was very considerable, compared with the amount of population.
• In point of fact, the amount was always much less than I had feared.
• It was a homey-looking old place, with the usual appearance of comfort pertaining to an English Inn, and the maximum amount of discomfort as judged by our modern standards.
• This in the judgment of the Treasurer is entirely due to the less amount of energy expended for a smaller proportion of members have dropped out than a year ago.
• In fact, the whole city of Athens seemed to be prosperous, from the amount of building that was being done.
• It was an expiring exclamation, instinctively appealing to the amount of aid held in suspense in space.
• There is a great amount of trade, and they have many vessels.
• It appears that the amount above stated was all the money collected thereupon.

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