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.
Meanings
A hill or mountain.
(qualifier: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
(obsolete) A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound.
⸿ For thus hath the Lord of hoſtes said ; Hew yee downe trees and ‖ caſt a mount againſt Jeruſalem : this is the citie to be viſited, ſhe is wholly oppreſſion in the midſt of her. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 6:6, columns 2–1:
es peñón (mountain) · de Auffälligkeit (palmistry: prominence) · hu domb (palmistry: prominence) · es monte (mountain) · de erhöhte Stelle (palmistry: prominence) · fi kukkula (palmistry: prominence) · fr éminence (palmistry: prominence)
From Middle English mounten, from Anglo-Norman munter, from Vulgar Latin *montāre (“climb”), from Latin montem (“mountain”). Compare modern French monter.
Meanings
An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on.
The rider climbed onto his mount.
(figuratively) A car, bicycle, or motorcycle used for racing.
A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted.
The post is the mount on which the mailbox is installed.
(obsolete) A rider in a cavalry unit or division.
The General said he has 2,000 mounts.
A step or block to assist in mounting a horse.
A signal for mounting a horse.
A dominant ground grappling position, where one combatant sits on the other combatants torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head.
es cabalgadura (horse) · fr support (a mounting) · ru скаку́н (horse) · nn ridedyr (horse) · nl rijpaard (horse) · cmn 支架 (a mounting) · fi hevonen (horse) · fr monture (horse) · id tunggangan (horse) · fi varsi (a mounting) · nl ruiter (rider in cavalry) · cmn 馬 /马 (horse) · cs kůň (horse) · nb ridedyr (horse) · sq kalorës (rider in cavalry) · sw rikabu (horse) · it destriero (horse) · pl wierzchowiec (horse) · fi jalka (a mounting) · es montura (a mounting) · gl montura (horse) · izh ratsas (horse) · izh ratsu (horse) · fr monture (a mounting) · hi घोड़ा (horse) · bg подложка (a mounting) · de Halterung (a mounting) · fi ratsu (horse) · tr çerçeve (a mounting) · fr cavalier (rider in cavalry) · sq kalitës (horse) · de Pfosten (a mounting) · de Reittier (horse) · eo selĉevalo (horse) · sv riddjur (horse) · de Reitpferd (horse) · hi चढ़ाई (a mounting) · tr binek hayvanı (horse) · cs držák (a mounting) · hi अश्व (horse) · hu paripa (horse) · gl cabalgadura (horse) · cs stojan (a mounting) · fi ratsumies (rider in cavalry) · bg конник (rider in cavalry) · fi tuki (a mounting) · cs úchyt (a mounting) · cmn 騎兵 /骑兵 (rider in cavalry) · de Halter (a mounting) · fi kannake (a mounting) · gl montura (a mounting) · de Reiter (rider in cavalry) · de Sockel (a mounting) · ms cagak (a mounting) · cs podpěra (a mounting) · pt montaria (horse) · es caballería (horse) · pt cavaleiro (rider in cavalry) · hu ló (horse) · bg оседлан кон (horse) · hi चढ़ना (a mounting) · fi ratsuhevonen (horse) · es montura (horse)
From Middle English mounten, from Anglo-Norman munter, from Vulgar Latin *montāre (“climb”), from Latin montem (“mountain”). Compare modern French monter.
Meanings
(transitive) To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
This time I was received with a smile. Monsieur Poirot was within. Would I mount? I mounted accordingly. 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 144:
to mount stairs
Or shall we mount again the Rural Throne,
And rule the Country Kingdoms, once our own? 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the page)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
(transitive) To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride.
The rider mounted his horse.
(transitive) To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding.
to mount the Trojan troop 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
(obsolete, transitive) To cause (something) to rise or ascend; to drive up; to raise; to elevate; to lift up.
What power is it which mounts my love so high? c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
(transitive) To sit on a combatant's torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head; to assume the mount position in ground grappling.
(intransitive, rare) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; often with up.
Thy spirit ere our fatal loss
Did ever rise from high to higher;
As mounts the heavenward altar-fire,
As flies the lighter thro’ the gross. 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XL”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 62:
Though Babylon ſhould mount vp to heauen, and though ſhee ſhould fortifie the height of her ſtrength, yet from me ſhall ſpoilers come vnto her, ſaith the Lord. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 51:53, column 1:
The fire of trees and houses mounts on high. 1656, Abraham Cowley, Davideis:
I was at the Mathematical School, where the Maſter taught his Pupils after a Method ſcarce imaginable to us in Europe. The Propoſition and Demonſtration were fairly written on a thin Wafer, with Ink compoſed of a Cephalick Tincture. This the Student was to ſwallow upon a faſting Stomach, and for three days following eat nothing but Bread and Water. As the Wafer digeſted, the Tincture mounted to his Brain, bearing the Propoſition along with it. 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Permitted to See the Grand Academy of Lagado. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), page 78:
(transitive) To attach (an object) to a support, backing, framework etc.
He spends his days flitting through the woods with his shot-gun and his butterfly-net, and his evenings in mounting the many specimens he has acquired. 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
to mount a mailbox on a post
But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge,[…]. 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
to mount a specimen on a small plate of glass for viewing by a microscope
to mount a photograph on cardboard
to mount an engine in a car
“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly.
Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan.
“Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.” 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
(transitive) To attach (a drive or device) to the file system in order to make it available to the operating system.
Burn the contents of the staging area onto a writable CD-ROM, carry it over to the Web server, and mount it. 1998, Lincoln D. Stein, Web Security: A Step-by-step Reference Guide, page 377:
(intransitive, sometimes, with-up) To increase in quantity or intensity.
The bills mounted up and the business failed. There is mounting tension in Crimea.
(obsolete) To attain in value; to amount (to).
Bring then these blessings to a strict account,
Make fair deductions, see to what they mount. 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:
(transitive) To get on top of (another) for the purpose of copulation.
When God presented Lilith to Adam, Adam was overjoyed and enthusiastically set her on the ground and tried to mount her after the fashion of the animals; but Lilith protested and said: "Why should I be on the bottom and you on the top?" 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 16:
(transitive) To have or begin sexual intercourse with someone.
She mounted him last night.
(transitive) To begin (a campaign, military assault, etc.); to launch.
A Bolivian general has been arrested and accused of mounting a coup against the government after attempting to storm the presidential palace on Wednesday. 2024 July 27, “Bolivian general arrested and accused of coup after dramatic showdown with president”, in edition.cnn.com:
For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places. 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
The General gave the order to mount the attack.
Corals mount a two-stage response to heat stress, first bleaching and then dying. Some of the southernmost reefs, exposed to the hottest water, are already dead but those in slightly cooler locations have a better chance of survival and regeneration. 2023 August 7, Clive Cookson, “Missing ice and bleached coral: the sudden warming of the oceans”, in Financial Times:
(archaic, transitive) To deploy (cannon) for use.
to mount a cannon
(transitive) To prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc. for use in (a play or production).
To incorporate fat, especially butter, into (a dish, especially a sauce to finish it).
de anbringen (to attach an object to a support — see also install, set) · gl montar (to have sexual intercourse with someone) · fi nostaa (to cause something to rise or ascend) · de beladen (to cause to mount; to put on horseback) · no bestige (to have sexual intercourse with someone) · es cabalgar (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · fi astua (to get on top of an animal to mate) · de eröffnen (to begin an assault, campaign etc.) · it montare (to have sexual intercourse with someone) · nl bevestigen (to attach an object to a support — see also install, set) · cs upevnit (to attach an object to a support — see also install, set) · fr enfourcher (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · de sich setzen auf (vt.) (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · de anmelden (computing: to attach a drive or device) · sq ngrej (to rise on high) · de startklar machen (to cause something to rise or ascend) · sv tillta (to increase in quantity or intensity) · de erklimmen (to get upon; to ascend; to climb) · sv montera (computing: to attach a drive or device) · bg достигам (to attain in value; to amount to) · es montar (to attach an object to a support — see also install, set) · ota آشمق (to rise on high) · kea munta (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · nl beklimmen (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · no montere (to attach an object to a support — see also install, set) · sv aptera (to deploy cannon for use) · fi kasautua (to increase in quantity or intensity) · hy ելնել (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · es montar (to prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc.) · de Gefechtsposition einnehmen (to deploy cannon for use) · sv montera (to attach an object to a support — see also install, set) · fi nousta (to attain in value; to amount to) · sq hyp (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · fr se taper (to have sexual intercourse with someone) · nl monteren (to attach an object to a support — see also install, set) · az mindirmək (to cause to mount; to put on horseback) · et kinnitama (to attach an object to a support — see also install, set) · bg поставям (to prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc.) · es acaballarse (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · cs zahájit (to begin an assault, campaign etc.) · es montar (to have sexual intercourse with someone) · bg възсядам (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · de sich belaufen auf (to attain in value; to amount to) · fr progresser (to increase in quantity or intensity) · de anschrauben (to attach an object to a support — see also install, set) · txb ränk- (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · fi nostaa ratsaille (to cause to mount; to put on horseback) · te ఎక్కు (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · cs nasednout (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · fi kiihtyä (to increase in quantity or intensity) · txb ränk- (to get upon; to ascend; to climb) · sv uppgå (to attain in value; to amount to) · as উঠা (to get upon; to ascend; to climb) · de aufstellen (to deploy cannon for use) · qu saruy (to get on top of an animal to mate) · hu csatol (to attach an object to a support — see also install, set) · fi ratsautua (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · fi nousta (to increase in quantity or intensity) · pl dosiąść (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · es acaballar (to cause to mount; to put on horseback) · pt subir (to get upon; to ascend; to climb) · de pimpern (to have sexual intercourse with someone) · kea montá (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · de ersteigen (to get upon; to ascend; to climb) · fr sauter (to get on top of an animal to mate) · as উঠা (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · ru взобра́ться (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · sv bestiga (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · de bespringen (to get on top of an animal to mate) · ru смонти́ровать (computing: to attach a drive or device) · cs přimontovat (to attach an object to a support — see also install, set) · fi ladata (to deploy cannon for use) · fi nostattaa (to cause something to rise or ascend) · ro încăleca (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · no montere (computing: to attach a drive or device) · zza cınışten (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · de in die Höhe heben (to rise on high) · sv bestiga (to get on top of an animal to mate) · cmn 發動 /发动 (to begin an assault, campaign etc.) · bg повишавам (to increase in quantity or intensity) · cs vystoupit (to get upon; to ascend; to climb) · grc ἐπιβαίνω (to get upon; to ascend; to climb) · de in Gang setzen (to begin an assault, campaign etc.) · fr monter (to get upon; to ascend; to climb) · izh nussia (to have sexual intercourse with someone) · aln nit (to get upon; to ascend; to climb) · fi tuottaa (to prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc.) · ro monta (to attach an object to a support — see also install, set) · fi lavastaa (to prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc.) · de einleiten (to begin an assault, campaign etc.) · bg качвам се (to get upon; to ascend; to climb) · fr monter (to cause something to rise or ascend) · de erheben (to rise on high) · sv inrikta (to deploy cannon for use) · hi चढ़ना (to get upon; to ascend; to climb) · de einrichten (to deploy cannon for use) · de aufsteigen (to get upon; to ascend; to climb) · de einbinden (computing: to attach a drive or device) · la ascendō (to get upon; to ascend; to climb) · de ausrüsten (to cause to mount; to put on horseback) · fr sauter (to have sexual intercourse with someone) · hy բարձրանալ (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · cs rozběhnout (to begin an assault, campaign etc.) · de besteigen (to get on top of an animal to mate) · no bestige (to get on top of an animal to mate) · fr monter (to get on top of an animal to mate) · fr élever (to rise on high) · fi nousta jonkin selkään (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · es montar (computing: to attach a drive or device) · sv arrangera (to prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc.) · fr augmenter (to increase in quantity or intensity) · kea montá (to get upon; to ascend; to climb) · de bespringen (to have sexual intercourse with someone) · fi käynnistää (to begin an assault, campaign etc.) · nl bestijgen (to get on top of an animal to mate) · es montar (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · de starten (to begin an assault, campaign etc.) · fi kiinnittää (to attach an object to a support — see also install, set) · cs zasadit (to attach an object to a support — see also install, set) · bg възкачвам (to get on top of an animal to mate) · es montar (to begin an assault, campaign etc.) · de ausrichten (to deploy cannon for use) · cs růst (to increase in quantity or intensity) · hu felszáll (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · sv lägra (to have sexual intercourse with someone) · de decken (to get on top of an animal to mate) · es subirse (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · de aufsteigen lassen (to rise on high) · fr monter (computing: to attach a drive or device) · eo munti (computing: to attach a drive or device) · de besteigen (to have sexual intercourse with someone) · cs připevnit (to attach an object to a support — see also install, set) · de befestigen (to attach an object to a support — see also install, set) · sq nit (gheg) (to attach an object to a support — see also install, set) · fr s'élever (to attain in value; to amount to) · fr monter (to attach an object to a support — see also install, set) · sv anträda (to begin an assault, campaign etc.) · sv bestiga (to get upon; to ascend; to climb) · fi nousta (to rise on high) · fi nousta (to get upon; to ascend; to climb) · ar رَكِبَ (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · de einhängen (computing: to attach a drive or device) · cs připojit (computing: to attach a drive or device) · sq hip (to get upon; to ascend; to climb) · fr se cogner (to have sexual intercourse with someone) · gl montar (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · fi kiivetä (to get upon; to ascend; to climb) · fr chevaucher (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · cmn 騎 /骑 (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · bg вдигам (to rise on high) · cs uspořádat (to begin an assault, campaign etc.) · pt montar (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · fi haastaa (to begin an assault, campaign etc.) · es montar (to get on top of an animal to mate) · no bestige (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · de besteigen (to get upon; to ascend; to climb) · gl montar (to prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc.) · fr lancer (to begin an assault, campaign etc.) · de stärken (to increase in quantity or intensity) · cmn 掛載 /挂载 (computing: to attach a drive or device) · az minmək (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · grc ἐπιβαίνω (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · de zunehmen (to increase in quantity or intensity) · ga suigh (to attach an object to a support — see also install, set) · de zunehmen (to attain in value; to amount to) · cs stoupat (to increase in quantity or intensity) · sq hipi (to rise on high) · fi panna (to have sexual intercourse with someone) · sv stiga (to rise on high) · ota بینمك (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · de montieren (to attach an object to a support — see also install, set) · rup ncalic (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · cs vystoupat (to get upon; to ascend; to climb) · kea munta (to get upon; to ascend; to climb) · mn мордох (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · pt montar (computing: to attach a drive or device) · fr grimper (to get upon; to ascend; to climb) · sq ngjit (to attach an object to a support — see also install, set) · gl montar (to get on top of an animal to mate) · hi चढ़ना (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · fi liittää (computing: to attach a drive or device) · de beginnen (to begin an assault, campaign etc.) · cmn 發起 /发起 (to begin an assault, campaign etc.) · cs namontovat (to attach an object to a support — see also install, set) · uga 𐎗𐎋𐎁 (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · sv inleda (to begin an assault, campaign etc.) · sv öka (to increase in quantity or intensity) · de besteigen (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · sq ngjit (to get upon; to ascend; to climb) · de fahren (vt.) (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · cs zvyšovat se (to increase in quantity or intensity) · de mounten (computing: to attach a drive or device) · ru взбира́ться (to place oneself on a horse, bicycle etc. to ride) · pt montar (to get on top of an animal to mate)