census

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

An official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.
Count, tally.
A type of tax levied by feudal lords on peasants.
A count of the number of individual patterns within a larger pattern, most often the ash of a soup or a methuselah.

verb

/ˈsɛnsəs/ en-us-census.ogg

census censuses censusses censusing censussing censused censussed

Borrowed from Latin cēnsus, from cēnseō. See censor.

headcount

anticensus census area census-designated place census tract intercensus microcensus noncensus postcensus precensus recensus

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