mount
/maʊnt/ noun, verb, proper noun
- noun A hill or mountain.
- noun (palmistry) Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly bodies. “the mount of Jupiter”
- noun (obsolete) A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound.
- noun (obsolete) A bank; a fund.
- noun (heraldry) A green hillock in the base of a shield.
- noun An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on. “The rider climbed onto his mount.”
- noun (now only figurative) A car, bicycle, or motorcycle used for racing.
- noun A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted. “The post is the mount on which the mailbox is installed.”
- noun (obsolete) A rider in a cavalry unit or division. “The General said he has 2,000 mounts.”
- noun A step or block to assist in mounting a horse.
- noun A signal for mounting a horse.
- noun (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.
- noun (gymnastics) The act of getting onto the apparatus.
- verb (transitive) To get upon; to ascend; to climb. “to mount stairs”
- verb (transitive) To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride. “The rider mounted his horse.”
- verb (transitive) To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding.
- verb (obsolete, transitive) To cause (something) to rise or ascend; to drive up; to raise; to elevate; to lift up.
- verb (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.
- verb (intransitive, rare) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; often with up.
- verb (transitive) To attach (an object) to a support, backing, framework etc. “to mount a mailbox on a post”
Synonyms
mons steed build coitize go to bed with sleep with saddle horse riding horse climb mountain setting backing wax rise hop on mount up get on jump on climb on bestride climb up go up put on ride
Antonyms
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.
From Middle English mounten, from Anglo-Norman munter, from Vulgar Latin *montāre (“climb”), from Latin montem (“mountain”). Compare modern French monter.
English surname, from the noun mount.
Webster’s 1913
- noun A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; --used always instead of mountain, when put before a proper name; as, Mount Washington; otherwise, chiefly in poetry.
- noun A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound. [Obs.]
- verb To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; --often with up. Though Babylon should mount up to heaven. Jer. li. 53.
- verb To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.
Etymology [OE. munt, mont, mount, AS. munt, fr. L. mons, montis; cf. L. minae protections, E. eminent, menace: cf. F. mont. Cf. Mount, v., Mountain, Mont, Monte, Montem.]
Etymology [OE. mounten, monten, F. monter, fr. L. mons, montis, mountain. See Mount, n. (above).]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “mount”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details