mount

mount is a 5-letter English word with 27 senses as verb, noun, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 10 · 27 senses

Definitions

1. verb. 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.
2. verb. A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound.
3. verb. A bank; a fund.
4. noun. To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.
5. noun. To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.
6. noun. To attain in value; to amount.
7. transitive verb. To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
8. transitive verb. To place one's self on, as a horse or other animal, or anything that one sits upon; to bestride.
9. transitive verb. To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses.
10. transitive verb. Hence: To put upon anything that sustains and fits for use, as a gun on a carriage, a map or picture on cloth or paper; to prepare for being worn or otherwise used, as a diamond by setting, or a sword blade by adding the hilt, scabbard, etc.
11. transitive verb. To raise aloft; to lift on high.
12. verb. That upon which a person or thing is mounted
13. verb. A horse.
14. verb. The cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted; a mounting.
15. noun. the act of climbing something

    "it was a difficult climb to the top"

    Synonyms: climb

16. noun. a lightweight horse kept for riding only
17. noun. something forming a back that is added for strengthening

    Synonyms: backing

18. noun. a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place

    "the diamond was in a plain gold mount"

    Synonyms: setting

19. noun. a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill

    Synonyms: mountain

20. verb. fix onto a backing, setting, or support

    "mount slides for macroscopic analysis"

21. verb. go up or advance

    "Sales were climbing after prices were lowered"

    Synonyms: climb, rise, wax

22. verb. attach to a support

    "They mounted the aerator on a floating"

23. verb. copulate with

    "The bull was riding the cow"

    Synonyms: ride

24. verb. put up or launch

    "mount a campaign against pornography"

25. verb. prepare and supply with the necessary equipment for execution or performance

    "mount a theater production"

    "mount an attack"

26. verb. go upward with gradual or continuous progress

    "Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?"

    Synonyms: climb

27. verb. get up on the back of

    "mount a horse"

    Synonyms: bestride

Synonyms

climb, backing, setting, mountain, rise, wax, ride, bestride

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in mount:

montu, muton, notum

Common word forms

mounts, mounted, mounter, mounting, mountable

Words from these letters

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