census
UK/ˈsɛnsəs/
census 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.
Noun
census (countable and uncountable, plural censuses or censusses or census)
- 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.
- 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...1984, 43:03 from the start, in Dune (Science Fiction), spoken by Reverend Mother Ramallo, →OCLC
- The people being treated in a healthcare facility, clinic or program.
- Count, tally.
- In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included ...1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 7, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
- 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
census (third-person singular simple present censuses or censusses, present participle censusing or censussing, simple past and past participle censused or censussed)
- To conduct a census on.
- Each page of the schedule was crossruled with 8 lines, capable of censussing 8 individuals.1893, Census of India, 1891, volume 23, page 347
- Indeed, none of the recorded characteristics of buildings nor their location affected our counts of breeding Sparrows, which appeared to be distributed rather homogeneously across the urban areas we censused.2008, Pierandrea Brichetti et al., “Recent declines in urban Italian Sparrow Passer (domesticus) italiae populations in northern Italy”, in Ibis, page 179, column 2
- To collect a census.
- 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...1965, Fauna & Flora, page 46
- For 14 individuals, eight censusses per daily period were performed within two weeks (32 censusses per individual), each time recording the coordinates of location. The territories of the individuals were defined as the area defended successfully against conspecifics by agonistic and/or...1995, Netherlands Journal of Zoology, volume 45, page 390
census meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
census in Hindi
- official count of members of a population
- जनगणना jangaṇnā
census in Tamil
- மக்கள் தொகைக் கணக்கு, மக்கள் தொகைக் கணக்கெடுப்பு
census in Marathi
- official count of members of a population
- जनगणना jangaṇnā
census in Urdu
- official count of members of a population
- مردم شماری
More languagesFewer languages
- census in Bengali
- আদমশুমারি adomśumari
- census in Telugu
- జనాభా గణన
- census in Malayalam
- കാനേഷുമാരി kānēṣumāri
- census in Kannada
- ಆಳೆಣಿಕೆ, ಜನಗಣತಿ, ಖಾನೇಷುಮಾರಿ, ಜನಗಣನೆ
- census in Punjabi
- ਮਰਦਮਸ਼ੁਮਾਰੀ mardamaśumārī
- census in Gujarati
- વસ્તીગણતરી vastīgṇatrī
- census in Odia
- ଜନଗଣନା, ଜନଗଣନାର
- census in Assamese
- লোকপিয়ল lûkôpiyôl
- census in Nepali
- जनगणना
- census in Pashto
- سرشمېرنه
- census in Tagalog
- lahatambilang
- census in Arabic
- تَعْدَاد اَلسُّكَّان taʕdād as-sukkān, إِحْصَاء اَلسُّكَّان ʔiḥṣāʔ as-sukkān, تَعْدَاد taʕdād
- census in Malay
- banci
- census in Indonesian
- sensus
- census in Persian
- سرشماری
- census in Thai
- สำมะโน sǎm-má-noo
- census in Vietnamese
- điều tra dân số, thống kê dân số, kiểm kê dân số
Examples of census in a sentence
- As you know, the Imperium has never been able to take a census of the Fremen.1984, 43:03 from the start, in Dune (Science Fiction), spoken by Reverend Mother Ramallo, →OCLC:
- 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.1965, Fauna & Flora, page 46:
- For 14 individuals, eight censusses per daily period were performed within two weeks (32 censusses per individual), each time recording the coordinates of location.1995, Netherlands Journal of Zoology, volume 45, page 390:
Forms of census
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | censuses |
| plural | censusses |
| plural | census |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | censuses |
| third-person singular present | censusses |
| present participle | censusing |
| present participle | censussing |
| past participle | censused |
| past | censused |
| past participle | censussed |
| past | censussed |
Origin of census
Borrowed from Latin cēnsus, from cēnseō. See censor.
Words formed from census
Phrases with census
Questions about census
- What does census mean?
- Census means 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.
- What is census in Hindi?
- Census in Hindi is जनगणना (jangaṇnā). See Census meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use census in a sentence?
- As you know, the Imperium has never been able to take a census of the Fremen.
- What part of speech is census?
- Census can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce census?
- Census is pronounced /ˈsɛnsəs/ (UK).
- What is the plural of census?
- The plural of census is censuses.
Words near census in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: census (page history and authors); census (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); census (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); കാനേഷുമാരി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); census (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); વસ્તીગણતરી (Gujarati) (page history and authors); census (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); লোকপিয়ল (Assamese) (page history and authors); census (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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