mount

An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on.

Noun

  1. An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on.
    • The rider climbed onto his mount.

    Synonyms: steed

    Coordinate Terms: draught horse

  2. A car, bicycle, or motorcycle used for racing.
  3. A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted.
    • The post is the mount on which the mailbox is installed.
  4. A rider in a cavalry unit or division.
    • The General said he has 2,000 mounts.
  5. A step or block to assist in mounting a horse.
  6. A signal for mounting a horse.
  7. A dominant ground grappling position, where one combatant sits on the other combatants torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head.
  8. The act of getting onto the apparatus.

Origin

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

Forms

mounts

Derived

bridge mount covermount engine mount flatmount flush mount headmount micromount mismount motor mount Mountie mountless mount point overmount rackmount Riker mount shock mount strap mount transmission mount wet mount

Noun Entry 2

  1. A hill or mountain.
  2. Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly bodies.
    • the mount of Jupiter
  3. 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...
  4. A bank; a fund.
  5. A green hillock in the base of a shield.

Origin

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.

Forms

mounts

Synonyms

mons

Related

mont

Derived

Boona Mount Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia Fitzgeralds Mount Lower Mount Walker marchmount Marshall Mount Marys Mount montuous Mount Abundance Mount Adams Mount Adrah Mount Alexander Mount Alford Mount Alfred Mount Alma Mount Anketell Mount Annan Mount Aquila Mount Archer Mount Arlington Mount Arthur Mount Atkinson Mount Austin Mount Ayr

Verb

  1. To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
    • 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...
    • 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:
  2. To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride.
    • The rider mounted his horse.
  3. 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:
  4. 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:...
  5. 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. To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; often with up.
    • 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:...
    • 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...
  7. To attach (an object) to a support, backing, framework etc.
    • to mount a mailbox on a post
    • to mount a specimen on a small plate of glass for viewing by a microscope
    • to mount a photograph on cardboard
  8. 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:
  9. To increase in quantity or intensity.
    • The bills mounted up and the business failed. There is mounting tension in Crimea.

    Synonyms: build

  10. 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:
  11. 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...
  12. To have or begin sexual intercourse with someone.
    • She mounted him last night.

Forms

mounts mounting mounted

Synonyms

coitize go to bed with sleep with

Antonyms

dismount demount unmount

Related

amount mountain paramount surmount

Derived

automount mismount mountable mount a horse foaled by an acorn mountboard Mountcastle mountdown mounter mount St. George mount the high horse mount up outmount Outremount overmount premount remount