English Explanatory Dictionary

count

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To recite numbers in sequence.
  2. To determine the number of (objects in a group).
  3. To amount to, to number in total.
  4. To be of significance; to matter; to be considered (as something); to be included (of something).
  5. To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun.
  6. To consider something as an example of something or as having some quality; to account, to regard as.
  7. To reckon in, to include in consideration.
  8. To take account or note (of), to care (for).
  9. To recount, to tell.
  10. To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.
noun
  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. A distinct and separate charge in an indictment or complaint.
  5. The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.
  6. An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
  7. Cunt (the taboo swear word)
adj
  1. Countable.
  2. Used to show the amount of like items in a package.
noun
  1. The male ruler of a county.
  2. A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.
  3. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called earls and viscounts.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

kount /kaʊnt/ en-us-count.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-count.wav /kuːnt/

Word forms

count counts counting counted no-table-tags glossary countest countedst counteth

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin com- Proto-Indo-European *pewH- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *puHtós Proto-Italic *putos Latin putus? Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin putō Latin computō Anglo-Norman counterbor. Middle English counten English count From Middle English counten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conter, from Old French conter (“add up; tell a story”), from Latin computō (“to compute”). In this sense, displaced native Old English tellan, whence Modern English tell. Doublet of compute. Compare typologically reckon, Russian счита́ть (sčitátʹ), счита́ться (sčitátʹsja); the semantic evolution to Mongolian санах (sanax).

Synonyms

number count numerate tally tell tell off enumerate

Antonyms

miscount

Related words

compute counting innumerable countess contessa comital baron don duke earl lord marquess prince

Derived words

almost doesn't count almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades be able to count on one's fingers black where it counts box-counting dimension but who's counting close only counts in horseshoes close only counts in horseshoes and darts close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades countability count against count agent count angels on pinheads count calories count cards count chickens count coup count-down count down countedness count 'em count in count noses count off count-off count on count one's blessings count one's chickens count one's days count one's lucky stars count on one hand count on the fingers of one hand countor count out count room count sheep count the hours count to 10 count to 3 count to 5 count to five count to ten count to three count towards count-up count up count upon don't count your chickens before the eggs have hatched don't count your chickens before they're hatched double-count double count forecount it's the thought that counts it's what's inside that counts let me count the ways let us count the ways make it count miscount outcount overcount
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