Word Meanings - MOUNTANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Amount; sum; quantity; extent. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to MOUNTANCE)

• QUANTITY
  1. The attribute of being so much, and not more or less; the property of being measurable, or capable of increase and decrease, multiplication and division; greatness; and more concretely, that which answers the question "How much"; measure in
• AMOUNT
  L. ad montem to the mountain) upward, F. amont up the river. See 1. To go up; to ascend. So up he rose, and thence amounted straight. Spenser. 2. To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come in the aggregate or
• EXTENT
  Extended. Spenser.
• DISQUANTITY
  To diminish the quantity of; to lessen. Shak.
• TANTAMOUNT
  Equivalent in value, signification, or effect. A usage nearly tantamount to constitutional right. Hallam. The certainty that delay, under these circumstances, was tantamount to ruin. De Quincey.
• CATAMOUNT
  The cougar. Applied also, in some parts of the United States, to the lynx.
• PARAMOUNT
  Having the highest rank or jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme; preëminent; as, a paramount duty. "A traitor paramount." Bacon. Lady paramount , the lady making the best score. -- Lord paramount, the king. Syn. Superior;
• PARAMOUNTLY
  In a paramount manner.