mounted

[ moun-tid ]
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adjective
  1. seated or riding on a horse or other animal.

  2. serving on horseback or on some special mount, as soldiers or police.

  1. Military. (formerly) permanently equipped with horses or vehicles for transport.: Compare mobile (def. 4).

  2. having or set in a mounting: mounted gems.

  3. put into position for use, as guns.

Origin of mounted

1
First recorded in 1575–85; mount1 + -ed2

Opposites for mounted

Other words from mounted

  • un·mount·ed, adjective
  • well-mounted, adjective

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How to use mounted in a sentence

  • Every letter which came from the absent sister did inclose some imponderable unmounted photograph, with comments.

    Girls and Women | Harriet E. Paine (AKA E. Chester}
  • For the men we had mounted and unmounted drill, and spent much time in getting the accoutrements into condition for inspection.

    War in the Garden of Eden | Kermit Roosevelt
  • Something inside prevented its going more than half way, and I found it was the little unmounted picture curled up inside.

    Mary Ware's Promised Land | Annie Fellows Johnston
  • Unmounted prints are furnished unless otherwise specified in order.

    Kodaks and Kodak Supplies, 1914 | Canadian Kodak Company
  • And this done, they flanked them on either side by troops of light-armed infantry, and crossbowmen, and unmounted lancers.

    Villani's Chronicle | Giovanni Villani

British Dictionary definitions for mounted

mounted

/ (ˈmaʊntɪd) /


adjective
  1. equipped with or riding horses: mounted police

  2. provided with a support, backing, etc

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