Count Meaning and Definition

Word: Count

How to pronounce: kaʊnt

Verb

Definitions:

1. Determine the total number of (a collection of items)

Example sentences: "I started to count the stars I could see"

2. Take into account; include.

Example sentences: "The staff has shrunk to four, or five if you count the summer intern"

3. Be significant.

Example sentences: "It did not matter what the audience thought—it was the critics that counted"

Noun

Definitions:

1. An act of determining the total number of something.

Example sentences: "At the last count, fifteen applications were still outstanding"

2. An act of reciting numbers in ascending order, up to the specified number.

Example sentences: "Hold it for a count of seven"

3. A point for discussion or consideration.

Example sentences: "The program remained vulnerable on a number of counts"

4. The measure of the fineness of a yarn expressed as the weight of a given length or the length of a given weight.

Noun

Definitions:

1. A European nobleman whose rank corresponds to that of an English earl.

Example sentences: "They all sat in a row, ranged according to their rank - kings and princes and dukes and earls and counts and barons and knights."

Synonyms:

tally

account

regard

calculate

tally up

reckon up

set off

count out

reckon

consider

call

esteem

hold

rely

depend

lean

reckoning

number

census

numeration

enumeration

rate

bet

view

look

matter

indictment

charge

enumerate

mean

tell

except

Antonyms:

discount

Derivations:

counting

Countess

counter

countdown

counted

countable

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Count in Other Languages...

Spanish: Contar

German: Zählen

French: Compter

Italian: Contare

Turkish: Sayma