Census

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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. countable, uncountable

    "As you know, the Imperium has never been able to take a census of the Fremen. Everyone thinks that there are but few wandering here and there in the desert. My Lord, I suspect an incredible secret has been kept on this planet: that the Fremen exist in vast numbers- vast- and it is they who control Arrakis."

  2. 2
    a periodic count of the population wordnet
  3. 3
    Count, tally. countable, uncountable

    "In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included ..."

  4. 4
    A type of tax levied by feudal lords on peasants. countable, historical, uncountable
  5. 5
    A count of the number of individual patterns within a larger pattern, most often the ash of a soup or a methuselah. countable, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To conduct a census on. transitive

    "Each page of the schedule was crossruled with 8 lines, capable of censussing 8 individuals."

  2. 2
    conduct a census wordnet
  3. 3
    To collect a census. intransitive

    "My initiation to waterfowl censussing took place in the early days of the A.W.E., as it is familiarly known, when I served as a junior to one of the ablest of the Witwatersrand pioneers, Royce Reed. The method used must remain one of the three basic methods of Transvaal waterfowl censussing, although it has certain inherent limitations."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin cēnsus, from cēnseō. See censor.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin cēnsus, from cēnseō. See censor.

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