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dismount

/dɪsˈmaʊnt/verb, noun

dismount is a verb meaning “To (cause to) get off (something)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-I-S-M-O-U-N-T, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does dismount mean?

verb

  1. 1

    To (cause to) get off (something).

    She carefully dismounted from the horse.

  2. 2

    To make (a mounted drive) unavailable for use.

    The VMS operator tried to dismount the Unix hard drive with the DISMOUNT DISK$NFSMOUNT command, instead of umount /mnt/nfshome.

  3. 3

    To come down; to descend.

  4. 4

    To throw (cannon) off their carriages.

noun

  1. 1

    The act of stepping down from something being ridden, such as a skateboard.

    Nice dismount!

  2. 2

    The part of a routine in which the gymnast detaches from an apparatus.

    It was a stylish routine, let down by a sloppy dismount.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce dismount?

  • /dɪsˈmaʊnt/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-dismount.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-dismount.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of dismount

  • dismounts present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • dismounting participle, present
  • dismounted participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is dismount?

Dismount appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 46,473rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Dismount in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchdémonter (to get off), descendre (to come down; to descend)
Germanabnehmen, absteigen (to get off)
Portuguesedesmontar (to get off)
Spanishdesmontar (to get off)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does dismount come from?

From dis- + mount, probably a calque of Old French desmonter.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).