Word Meaning

mount definition and meaning

v. 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.
v. A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound.
v. A bank; a fund.
n. To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.
n. To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.
n. To attain in value; to amount.
v. t. To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
v. t. To place one's self on, as a horse or other animal, or anything that one sits upon; to bestride.
v. t. To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses.
v. t. 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.
v. t. To raise aloft; to lift on high.
v. That upon which a person or thing is mounted
v. A horse.
v. The cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted; a mounting.

Crossword clues for mount

- Ascend
- Climb aboard
- Climb on horse
- Climb onto
- Climb up or on to
- Get up on
- Horse for riding
- Increase; horse
- Scale