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Synonyms for mount

  • verb
  • noun

Most common

climb go up ascend tower get on jump on rise

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

1. Climb — to rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; often with up

climb, go up, ascend, tower, arise, climb up, scale, fly, aspire, escalade, soar, uprise

2. Jump on

get on, jump on, hop on, bestride

3. Rise

rise, wax

Other

screw, build, ball, lay, sleep with, ride slang, coitize formal rare

Noun

1. Saddle horse

saddle horse, riding horse

Other

mountain, steed, hill, setting, backing, put-on informal, back dated, mons dated

Antonyms

dismount, subside, valley

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Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; often with up.

  2. v. 2

    To get upon; to ascend; to climb.

  3. v. 3

    To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride.

    The rider mounted his horse.

  4. n. 1

    A hill or mountain.

Related words

Word family
mountlet mountboard mounter mountain
Phrases
mount up engine mount motor mount

Forms

Plural
mounts → mountains, steeds, hills, settings…
Past participle
mounted
e.g. mounted → climbed, ascended, towered, arisen…

Example sentences

  • tower That tower you see over there is the Eiffel Tower.
  • climb It's dangerous to climb a mountain in bad weather.
  • ascend The soul must be purified before it can ascend.
  • uprise The students promised to uprise if that substitute ever returned.
  • screw Do you tighten a screw clockwise or anticlockwise?

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
mountsteady
towersteady
climbrising
ascendrising
uprisefalling
screwsteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
fly1, lay1, wax1
4 letters
back1, ball1, rise1, ride1, hill1, soar1, mons
5 letters
build1, scale1, tower2, climb1, screw1, arise2, steed1
6 letters
aspire2, ascend2, uprise2
7 letters
setting2, backing2, coitize
8 letters
mountain2, escalade3, bestride

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (tower2 = 2 syllables).