counted

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To recite numbers in sequence.
   • Can you count to a hundred?
2. (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.

   Synonyms:

   tell, enumerate

3. (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
4. (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.
5. (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.
6. (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.

See all 23 meanings of count