count

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English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: kount, IPA^(key): /kaʊnt/
• Rhymes: -aʊnt

Etymology 1

From Middle English counten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conter, from Old French conter (“add up; tell a story”), from Latin computō (“I compute”). In this sense, displaced native Old English tellan, whence Modern English tell. Doublet of compute.

Verb

count (third-person singular simple present counts, present participle counting, simple past and past participle counted)

1. (intransitive) To recite numbers in sequence.

2. (transitive) To determine the number of (objects in a group).
3. (intransitive) To amount to, to number in total.
4. (intransitive) To be of significance; to matter.

5. (intransitive) To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun.
6. (transitive) To consider something as an example of something or as having some quality; to account, to regard as.
7. (transitive) To reckon in, to include in consideration.

8. (intransitive, obsolete) To take account or note (of), to care (for).
9. (transitive, obsolete) To recount, to tell.
10. (intransitive, UK, law, obsolete) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (determine the number of objects in a group): enumerate, number; see also Thesaurus:count

Derived terms

Related terms

• compute

Translations

Noun

count (plural counts)

1. The act of counting or tallying a quantity.

2. The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.
3. A countdown.
4. (law) A distinct and separate charge in an indictment or complaint.
5. (baseball) The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.

6. (obsolete) An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
7. (euphemistic, slang) Cunt (the taboo swear word)

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

count (not comparable)

2. (linguistics, grammar) Countable.
3. (shipping, marketing) Used to show the amount of like items in a package.

Derived terms

References

Etymology 2

From Middle English counte, from Anglo-Norman conte and Old French comte (“count”), from Latin comes (“companion”) (more specifically derived from its accusative form comitem) in the sense of "noble fighting alongside the king". Doublet of comes, comte, and conte.

Noun

count (plural counts)

1. The male ruler of a county.
2. A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.
3. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called earls and viscounts.

Hyponyms

• comte (“French count”)
• conte (“Italian count”)
• earl (“English count”)
• graaf (“Dutch count”)
• graf (“German count”)

Derived terms

Related terms

• (female form or wife): countess, contessa
• (adjectival form): comital

Translations

See also

• (related titles): baron, don, duke, earl, lord, marquess, prince

Anagrams

• no-cut

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

count

1. alternative form of cunte

Etymology 2

Verb

count

1. alternative form of counten