Count
Meaning of Count
- determine the total number of (a collection of items).
I started to count the stars I could see
they counted up their change
- take into account; include.
the staff has shrunk to four, or five if you count the European director
- be significant.
it did not matter what the audience thought—it was the critics that counted
- an act of determining the total number of something.
at the last count, fifteen applications were still outstanding
the party's only candidate was eliminated at the first count
- an act of reciting numbers in ascending order, up to the specified number.
hold the position for a count of seven
- a point for discussion or consideration.
the programme remained vulnerable on a number of counts
- the measure of the fineness of a yarn expressed as the weight of a given length or the length of a given weight.
Middle English (as a noun): from Old French counte (noun), counter (verb), from the verb computare ‘calculate’ (see compute).
noun
a foreign nobleman whose rank corresponds to that of an earl.
late Middle English: from Old French conte, from Latin comes, comit- ‘companion, overseer, attendant’ (in late Latin ‘person holding a state office’), from com- ‘together with’ + it- ‘gone’ (from the verb ire ‘go’).
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Hyphenation of Count
Count
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- Count is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Count synonyms
Meaning counting:
counting, numeration, enumeration, reckoning, tally
Meaning number:
Meaning matter:
Meaning consider:
Meaning bet:
bet, depend, look, calculate, reckon
Meaning reckon:
Meaning reckon or calculate (a figure or amount):
Meaning add up the full number or amount of:
Meaning join (something) to something else so as to increase the size, number, or amount:
Meaning communicate information to someone in spoken or written words:
Meaning allow (someone) to share in an activity or privilege:
Meaning take in or contain (something) as part of a whole; include:
Meaning be of importance:
Meaning consider to be of a certain quality or standard:
Meaning a mathematical determination of the amount or number of something:
Meaning the action of mathematical calculation:
Meaning having a striking or revealing effect; significant:
Meaning agree or correspond:
Meaning the number of votes cast in an election:
Meaning an official count or survey, especially of a population:
Meaning a list or catalogue:
Meaning an official list or record of names or items:
Words that rhyme with Count
Aldecount, LeucoCOUNT, Viscount, account, archcount, count, discount, forecount, headcount, misaccount, miscount, nondiscount, nosecount, outcount, overcount, overdiscount, preaccount, prediscount, reaccount, recount, rediscount, subaccount, superdiscount, undercount, viscount, Fount, fount, Blount, Fairmount, Mount, Paramount, Perimount, amount, catamount, countermount, demount, dismount, mismount, mount, outmount, overmount, paramount, remount, seamount, superparamount, surmount, tablemount, tantamount, undermount, unmount