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Definition of amount :
1. The effect, substance, value, significance, or result; the sum; as, the amount of the testimony is this.
2. 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.
3. To go up; to ascend.
4. To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come ( to) in the aggregate or whole; - with to or unto.
5. To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically ( to); as, the testimony amounts to very little.
6. To signify; to amount to.
Synonyms:
make out, amount of money, do, essence, mensuration, nitty-gritty, step, come up, balance, union, meat, get, derive, corpus, bailout, beat, kernel, summation, bulk, come in, descend, bar, sum up, arithmetic, hail, measurement, sum of money, tot up, join, measuring, centre, add up, follow, keep down, allocation, fare, measuring rod, aggregate, backlog, totality, cadence, inwardness, appropriation, pith, capacity, touchstone, count, meaning, accumulation, body, add, tot, budget, batch, change, study at, tenor, big, come, gist, burden, nub, heart and soul, get along, block, standard, metre, bankroll, center, bond, heart, core, bounty, make sense, import, whole, criterion, numerate, tale, tote up, list, volume, issue forth, result, product, cash flow, significance, all, add together, fall, marrow, blood money, enumerate, substance, bill, sum total, summate, occur, arrive, purport, measuring stick, mass, drift, meter
amount (part of speech: noun)
allowance, tally, piece, quantum, portion, proportion, total, ration, quantity, sum, allotment, measure, number
price (part of speech: noun)
figure, price, cost, tariff, tax, quotation, expense, premium, value, damage, levy, rate, toll, duty, tab, worth, dearness, charge, outlay
Usage examples:
- " That is the amount," she said. - "The Fighting Chance", Robert W. Chambers.
- I think I have already told you that he doesn't know the amount of his fortune. - "San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams", Charles Paul de Kock.
- It is a certain amount of feeling. - "Humanly Speaking", Samuel McChord Crothers.