mount

English Online Dictionary. What means mount‎? What does mount mean?

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /maʊnt/, [maʊnt], [maʊnʔ], [mãʊ̃(n)ʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʊnt

Etymology 1

From Middle English mount, munt, from Old English munt, from Latin mōns (“a hill, mountain”), from a root seen also in ēmineō (“I project, I protrude”) (English eminent). Doublet of mons.

Noun

mount (plural mounts)

1. A hill or mountain.
2. (palmistry) Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly bodies.

3. (obsolete) A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound.
4. (obsolete) A bank; a fund.
5. (heraldry) A green hillock in the base of a shield.

Usage notes

As with the names of rivers and lakes, the names of mountains are typically formed by adding the word before or after the unique term. Mount is used in situations where the word precedes the unique term: Mount Everest, Mount Rushmore, Mount Tai. Except in the misunderstood translation of foreign names (as with China's Mount Hua), the terms used with mount will therefore usually be nouns: Mount Olympus but Rugged Mountain and Crowfoot Mountain. It thus corresponds to the earlier the mount or mountain of ~.

Mount is no longer used as a generic synonym for mountain except in poetry and other literary contexts. An example is the fossilized form within the phrase Sermon on the Mount.

Synonyms

• (palmistry): mons (obsolete)

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• mont

Etymology 2

From Middle English mounten, from Anglo-Norman munter, from Vulgar Latin *montāre (“climb”), from Latin montem (“mountain”). Compare modern French monter.

Noun

mount (plural mounts)

1. An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on (unlike a draught horse).

2. (now only figurative) A car, bicycle, or motorcycle used for racing.
3. A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted.

4. (obsolete) 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. (martial arts) A dominant ground grappling position, where one combatant sits on the other combatants torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head.
8. (gymnastics) The act of getting onto the apparatus.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

mount (third-person singular simple present mounts, present participle mounting, simple past and past participle mounted)

1. (transitive) To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
2. (transitive) To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride.

3. (transitive) To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To cause (something) to rise or ascend; to drive up; to raise; to elevate; to lift up.
5. (transitive, martial arts) 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. (intransitive, rare) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; often with up.
7. (transitive) To attach (an object) to a support, backing, framework etc.
8. (transitive, computing) To attach (a drive or device) to the file system in order to make it available to the operating system.
9. (intransitive, sometimes with up) To increase in quantity or intensity.

10. (obsolete) To attain in value; to amount (to).
11. (transitive) To get on top of (another) for the purpose of copulation.
12. (transitive) To have or begin sexual intercourse with someone.

14. (transitive) To begin (a campaign, military assault, etc.); to launch.
15. (transitive, archaic) To deploy (cannon) for use.

16. (transitive) To prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc. for use in (a play or production).
17. (cooking) To incorporate fat, especially butter, into (a dish, especially a sauce to finish it).

Synonyms

• (to have sexual intercourse with someone): coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

Antonyms

• dismount
• demount
• unmount

Derived terms

Translations

Related terms

• amount
• mountain
• paramount
• surmount

Further reading

• “mount”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “mount”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “mount”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• notum, muton, Montu

Middle English

Alternative forms

• mont, mounte, mownt, munt

Etymology

From Old English munt and Anglo-Norman mount, both from Latin mōns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muːnt/, /munt/

Noun

mount (plural mountes or mouns)

1. A mountain; a mount or peak, especially the Alps.

Related terms

• mountant
• mounten
• mountayne
• mountuous
• mounture

Descendants

• English: mount
• Scots: munt

References

• “mǒunt, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-08.