ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Overmount

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Overmount is an adjective meaning Mounted over something else.

Meaning

Mounted over something else.

More Meanings

  1. (transitive) To tower over; to go or rise higher than.
  2. A piece of shaped cardboard used to prevent the glass of the frame from lying too closely upon an engraving or a picture.

Example Sentences

the pretty purple ground-nut, which, despising its name, overmounts the tallest shrubs

Word Forms

Antonyms for overmount

Common opposites include undermount.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include outmount, superate, surmount, mount, overtop, surtop.

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