count

/kaʊnt/

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Northumbria/kuːnt/

count verb: to recite numbers in sequence.

Verb

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

(intransitive) To recite numbers in sequence.
- Can you count to a hundred?
- The psychiatrist asked her to count down from a hundred by sevens.
(transitive) To determine the number of (objects in a group).
- Count the number of apples in the bag and write down the number on the spreadsheet.
- The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;
  The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President,[…]1803, Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Synonyms:

tell, enumerate
(intransitive) To amount to, to number in total.
- They counted thirty, crowded in a space
  Which left scarce room for motion or exertion; […]1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto II, stanza LXIII, page 150
(figuratively, intransitive, passive-like) To be of significance; to matter; to be considered (as something); to be included (of something).
- Your views don’t count here.
- It does count if you cheat with someone when you’re drunk.
(figuratively, intransitive, passive-like) To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun.
- Apples count as a type of fruit.
- This excellent man […] counted among the best and wisest of English statesmen.1886, John Addington Symonds, Sir Philip Sidney
(transitive) To consider something as an example of something or as having some quality; to account, to regard as.
- He counts himself a hero after saving the cat from the river.
- I count you as more than a friend.
(transitive) To reckon in, to include in consideration.
- They walked for three days, not counting the time spent resting.
(intransitive, obsolete) To take account or note (of), to care (for).
- […]to make her faire, that no man counts of her beauty.c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
(obsolete, transitive) To recount, to tell.
(UK, intransitive, obsolete) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.

Noun (1)

count (plural counts)

The act of counting or tallying a quantity.
- Give the chairs a quick count to check if we have enough.
- Breathe out slowly through your mouth for a count of five.
The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.
- By the official count, there are something like thirteen hundred species of birds in the Amazon, but Cohn-Haft thinks there are actually a good many more, because people have relied too much on features like size and plumage and not paid enough attention to sound.2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 177
A countdown.
A distinct and separate charge in an indictment or complaint.
- Zou, who was living in Elephant and Castle, south-east London, was convicted of 11 counts of rape, with two of the offences relating to one victim. He was also convicted of three counts of voyeurism, 10 of possession of an extreme pornographic image, one of false imprisonment and three of...2025 June 19, “Student who raped 10 women jailed for 24 years”, in bbc.com
- Anthony Williams (32), of Langford Road, Peterborough, was arrested and charged with ten counts of attempted murder, one count of ABH (Actual Bodily Harm), and one count of possession of a bladed article.2025 November 12, David Stubbings, “Knife attack: heroes hailed for saving lives”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 10
The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.
- He has a 3–2 count with the bases loaded.
(obsolete) An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
- When he was readie to his steede to mount / Vnto his way, which now was all his care and count.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 16
(slang, minced oath) Cunt (the taboo swear word)
- That count deserves a punishment.

Adjective

count (not comparable)

Countable.
- For example, the term abuse would require at least one definition for the uncount usage ‘invective, insulting language’, and another for the count usage ‘an item of invective, an insult’.2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 118
Used to show the amount of like items in a package.

Noun (2)

count (plural counts)

The male ruler of a county.
- After his marriage, John made a progress through the country with his beautiful Elizabeth, and they purchased towns and villages and lands until he became master of nearly half Rügen, and a very considerable count in the country. His father, old James Dietrich, was made a noble-man, and his...1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 313
A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called earls and viscounts.

Proper noun capitalized: Count

Count (plural Counts)

A surname.

count meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

count in Hindi

to enumerate or determine number: गिनना ginnā
ruler of a county (male): कौंट ka͠uṭ

count in Tamil

to enumerate or determine number: எண்ணு eṇṇu

count in Marathi

to enumerate or determine number: गणणे gaṇṇe, मोजणे mojṇe, गणना करणे gaṇnā karṇe
the act of counting: गणना gaṇnā
the result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set: मोजणी mojṇī
ruler of a county (male): काउन्ट kāunṭa

count in Urdu

to enumerate or determine number: گِنّا ginnā
ruler of a county (male): کاؤُنْٹ kāunṭ

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count in Bengali: গণনা gonona, গোনা gōna, কাউণ্ট kaunṭo
count in Telugu: లెక్కించు lekkiñcu, ఎన్ను ennu
count in Malayalam: എണ്ണുക eṇṇuka, എണ്ണം eṇṇaṁ
count in Kannada: ಎಣಿಸು eṇisu, ಎಣ್ಣು eṇṇu
count in Punjabi: ਗਿਣਨਾ giṇnā, گننا giṇṇā, ਸਿਮਰਨਾ simranā
count in Gujarati: ગણવું gaṇvũ, ગણતરી gaṇatrī
count in Odia: ଗଣିବା gaṇibā, ଘେନିବା ghenibā
count in Sanskrit: गणयति gaṇayati
count in Sinhala: ගණිනවා gaṇinawā
count in Assamese: গণা gona, হিচাপ কৰা hisap kora
count in Nepali: गन्नु gannu
count in Pashto: شمېر šmer
count in Tagalog: konde
count in Arabic: عَدَّ ʕadda, كُونْت kōnt
count in Malay: kira, bilang, hitung, count
count in Indonesian: menghitung, hitung
count in Thai: นับ náp, กระทง grà-tong, เคานต์ káo
count in Vietnamese: đếm, bá tước
count in Myanmar: ရေ re, ရေတွက် re-twak

Examples of count in a sentence

“Counting or not counting gang violence?” he said.¶A loud “pop” suddenly rang out.¶Kirk lurched back and to the left.2025 September 12, Eric Levenson, “Charlie Kirk’s final hours: How a stage for debate became a scene of tragedy”, in CNN, archived from the...
Zou, who was living in Elephant and Castle, south-east London, was convicted of 11 counts of rape, with two of the offences relating to one victim.2025 June 19, “Student who raped 10 women jailed for 24 years”, in bbc.com:

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Synonyms of count

Antonyms

miscount

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Forms of count

Verb
third-person singular present	counts
present participle	counting
past participle	counted
past	counted
second-person singular present (archaic)	countest
second-person singular past (archaic)	countedst
third-person singular present (archaic)	counteth
Noun
plural	counts
Proper noun
plural	Counts

Past tense of count: counted

Plural of count: counts

Origin of 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).

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.

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Questions about count

What does count mean?: Count means to recite numbers in sequence.
What is count in Hindi?: Count in Hindi is गिनना (ginnā), कौंट (ka͠uṭ). See Count meaning in Hindi.
How do you use count in a sentence?: “Counting or not counting gang violence?” he said.¶A loud “pop” suddenly rang out.¶Kirk lurched back and to the left.
What part of speech is count?: Count can be a verb, a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce count?: Count is pronounced /kaʊnt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of count?: The past tense of count is counted.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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