"tantamount" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈtæntəˌmaʊnt/ Audio: en-us-tantamount.ogg [US], en-au-tantamount.ogg [Australia] Forms: more tantamount [comparative], most tantamount [superlative]
Rhymes: -æntəmaʊnt Etymology: First attested in English in 1628. Either inherited from an unattested Middle English borrowing from Anglo-Norman tant amount, from amunter, from tant (“as much”) amonter (“to amount to”) or borrowed in the early 17th century from Italian tanto montare (“to amount to as much”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|xno|tant amount}} Anglo-Norman tant amount, {{m|fro|amunter}} amunter, {{m|fro|tant||as much}} tant (“as much”), {{m|fro|amonter||to amount to}} amonter (“to amount to”), {{m+|it|tanto montare|t=to amount to as much}} Italian tanto montare (“to amount to as much”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} tantamount (comparative more tantamount, superlative most tantamount)
  1. Equivalent in meaning or effect; amounting to the same thing in practical terms, even if being technically distinct. Translations (equivalent in meaning or effect): равностоен (ravnostoen) (Bulgarian), равносилен (ravnosilen) (Bulgarian), equivalent (Catalan), 等於 (Chinese Cantonese), 等于 (english: dang² jyu¹) (Chinese Cantonese), gelijkgesteld (Dutch), gelijkstaand (Dutch), gelijkwaardig (Dutch), equivalent (Dutch), samanveroinen (Finnish), käytännössä sama kuin (Finnish), équivalent (French), gleichbedeutend (German), egyenértékű (Hungarian), felér (Hungarian), ionann (Irish), equivalente (Italian), equivalent (Occitan), równoważny [masculine] (Polish), equivalente (Portuguese), равноси́льный (ravnosílʹnyj) (Russian), equivalente (Spanish), liktydig (Swedish), рівноси́льний (rivnosýlʹnyj) (Ukrainian), рівноці́нний (rivnocínnyj) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-tantamount-en-adj-fg1w-O2D Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 45 50 6

Noun

IPA: /ˈtæntəˌmaʊnt/ Audio: en-us-tantamount.ogg [US], en-au-tantamount.ogg [Australia] Forms: tantamounts [plural]
Rhymes: -æntəmaʊnt Etymology: First attested in English in 1628. Either inherited from an unattested Middle English borrowing from Anglo-Norman tant amount, from amunter, from tant (“as much”) amonter (“to amount to”) or borrowed in the early 17th century from Italian tanto montare (“to amount to as much”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|xno|tant amount}} Anglo-Norman tant amount, {{m|fro|amunter}} amunter, {{m|fro|tant||as much}} tant (“as much”), {{m|fro|amonter||to amount to}} amonter (“to amount to”), {{m+|it|tanto montare|t=to amount to as much}} Italian tanto montare (“to amount to as much”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} tantamount (plural tantamounts)
  1. (obsolete) Something which has the same value or amount (as something else). (attributive use passing into adjective, below) Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-tantamount-en-noun-94VWNwHI Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 45 50 6

Verb

IPA: /ˈtæntəˌmaʊnt/ Audio: en-us-tantamount.ogg [US], en-au-tantamount.ogg [Australia] Forms: tantamounts [present, singular, third-person], tantamounting [participle, present], tantamounted [participle, past], tantamounted [past]
Rhymes: -æntəmaʊnt Etymology: First attested in English in 1628. Either inherited from an unattested Middle English borrowing from Anglo-Norman tant amount, from amunter, from tant (“as much”) amonter (“to amount to”) or borrowed in the early 17th century from Italian tanto montare (“to amount to as much”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|xno|tant amount}} Anglo-Norman tant amount, {{m|fro|amunter}} amunter, {{m|fro|tant||as much}} tant (“as much”), {{m|fro|amonter||to amount to}} amonter (“to amount to”), {{m+|it|tanto montare|t=to amount to as much}} Italian tanto montare (“to amount to as much”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} tantamount (third-person singular simple present tantamounts, present participle tantamounting, simple past and past participle tantamounted)
  1. (obsolete) To amount to as much; to be equivalent. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-tantamount-en-verb-VVlDPvHb

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2022 March 16, Max Fisher, “As Russia Digs In, What’s the Risk of Nuclear War? ‘It’s Not Zero.’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
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      "code": "yue",
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      "sense": "equivalent in meaning or effect",
      "word": "等於"
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    {
      "code": "yue",
      "english": "dang² jyu¹",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "equivalent in meaning or effect",
      "word": "等于"
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      "sense": "equivalent in meaning or effect",
      "word": "gelijkgesteld"
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      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "equivalent in meaning or effect",
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    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "equivalent in meaning or effect",
      "word": "gelijkwaardig"
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    {
      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "equivalent in meaning or effect",
      "word": "equivalent"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "equivalent in meaning or effect",
      "word": "samanveroinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "equivalent in meaning or effect",
      "word": "käytännössä sama kuin"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
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      "word": "équivalent"
    },
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      "sense": "equivalent in meaning or effect",
      "word": "gleichbedeutend"
    },
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      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "equivalent in meaning or effect",
      "word": "egyenértékű"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "equivalent in meaning or effect",
      "word": "felér"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
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      "sense": "equivalent in meaning or effect",
      "word": "ionann"
    },
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "equivalent in meaning or effect",
      "word": "equivalente"
    },
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      "word": "equivalent"
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      "code": "pl",
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      "sense": "equivalent in meaning or effect",
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      "word": "równoważny"
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      "code": "pt",
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      "word": "equivalente"
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      "sense": "equivalent in meaning or effect",
      "word": "равноси́льный"
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      "code": "es",
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      "word": "equivalente"
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      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "equivalent in meaning or effect",
      "word": "liktydig"
    },
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      "code": "uk",
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      "sense": "equivalent in meaning or effect",
      "word": "рівноси́льний"
    },
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      "code": "uk",
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      "roman": "rivnocínnyj",
      "sense": "equivalent in meaning or effect",
      "word": "рівноці́нний"
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}

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