English
count
Pronunciation Etymology 1

From Middle English counten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conter, from Old French conter, from Latin computō.

Verb

count (counts, present participle counting; simple past and past participle counted)

  1. (intransitive) To recite numbers in sequence.
    Can you count to a hundred? The psychiatrist asked her to count down from a hundred by sevens.
  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.
    • c. 1845–1846, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Sonnets from the Portuguese”, in Poems. […], new edition, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], published 1850, →OCLC ↗, sonnet XLII, page 479 ↗:
      How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
  3. (intransitive) To amount to, to number in total.
    • 1819 July 14, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC ↗, canto II, stanza LXIII, page 150 ↗:
      They counted thirty, crowded in a space
      Which left scarce room for motion or exertion; […]
  4. (intransitive) To be of significance; to matter.
    Your views don’t count here.    It does count if you cheat with someone when you’re drunk.
  5. (intransitive) To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun.
    • 1886, John Addington Symonds, Sir Philip Sidney:
      This excellent man […] counted among the best and wisest of English statesmen.
    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.   I count you as more than a friend.
    • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC ↗; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene ii ↗:
      The entertainment we haue had of him,
      Is far from villanie or ſeruitude,
      And might in noble mindes be counted princely.
  7. (transitive) To reckon in, to include in consideration.
    They walked for three days, not counting the time spent resting.
  8. (intransitive, obsolete) To take account or note (of), to care (for).
  9. (transitive, obsolete) To recount, to tell.
  10. (intransitive, UK, legal, obsolete) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.
Conjugation
Conjugation of count

infinitive (to) count
present tense past tense
1st-person singular count counted
2nd-person singular

 count, countest†

 counted, countedst†
3rd-person singular

 counts, counteth†

 counted
plural

 count

subjunctive

 count

counted
imperative

 count

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participles

 counting

 counted

†Archaic or obsolete.

Synonyms Related terms Translations Translations Noun

count (plural counts)

  1. The act of counting or tallying a quantity.
    Give the chairs a quick count to check if we have enough.
  2. The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.
  3. A countdown.
  4. (legal) A charge of misconduct brought in a legal proceeding.
  5. (baseball) 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.
  6. (obsolete) An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗, stanza 16:
      When he was readie to his steede to mount / Vnto his way, which now was all his care and count.
  7. (euphemistic, slang) Cunt
    That count deserves a punishment.
Translations Translations Translations Translations Adjective

count (not comparable)

  1. (linguistics, grammar) Countable.
  2. (shipping, marketing) Used to show the amount of like items in a package.
Etymology 2

From Middle English counte, from Anglo-Norman conte and Old French comte, from Latin comes (more specifically derived from its accusative form comitem) in the sense of "noble fighting alongside the king".

Noun

count (plural counts)

  1. The male ruler of a county.
  2. A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.
  3. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called earls and viscounts.
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