Definition/Meaning of mount

• English - Noun: mount (plural mounts) A hill or mountain . Any of seven fleshy prominence s in the palm of the hand , taken to represent the influence s of various heavenly bodies . the mount of Jupiter (obsolete) A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound . 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 6:6, columns 2–1: ⸿ For thus hath the Lord of hoſtes said ;…
• English - Verb: mount (third-person singular simple present mounts, present participle mounting, simple past and past participle mounted) (transitive) To get upon; to ascend; to climb. to mount stairs 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the page)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC: Or shall we mount again the Rural…
• English - Related terms: amount mountain paramount surmount
• English - External links: mount in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary , G . & C . Merriam, 1913 mount in The Century Dictionary , The Century Co ., New York , 1911 mount at OneLook Dictionary Search
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. 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 . Etymology 2. From Middle English mounten , from Anglo-Norman munter , from Vulgar Latin *montāre (“climb”), from Latin montem (“mountain”). Compare modern French monter…