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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishcounten, borrowed fromAnglo-Normanconter, fromOld Frenchconter(“add up; tell a story”), fromLatincomputō(“I compute”). In this sense, displaced nativeOld Englishtellan, whenceModern Englishtell.Doublet ofcompute.

Compare typologicallyreckon, Russianсчита́ть(sčitátʹ),счита́ться(sčitátʹsja); the semantic evolution to Mongolianсанах(sanax).

Verb

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count (third-person singular simple presentcounts,present participlecounting,simple past and past participlecounted)

  1. (intransitive) Torecitenumbers insequence.
    Can youcount to a hundred?
    The psychiatrist asked her tocount down from a hundred by sevens.
  2. (transitive) To determine thenumber of (objects in a group).
    Synonym:tell
    Count the number of apples in the bag and write down the number on the spreadsheet.
  3. (intransitive) Toamount to, tonumber intotal.
  4. (intransitive, figurative, passive-like) To be ofsignificance; tomatter; to beconsidered (as something); to beincluded (of something).
    Your views don’tcount here.
    It doescount if you cheat with someone when you’re drunk.
  5. (intransitive, figurative, passive-like) To be anexample of something:often followed byas and an indefinite noun.
    Applescount as a type of fruit.
    • 1886,John Addington Symonds,Sir Philip Sidney:
      This excellent man[…]counted among the best and wisest of English statesmen.
    • 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, inThe Economist‎[2], volume408, number8847:
      Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.[…]But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about whatcounts as a territory, whatcounts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.
    • 2025 September 12, Eric Levenson, “Charlie Kirk’s final hours: How a stage for debate became a scene of tragedy”, inCNN‎[3], archived fromthe original on12 September 2025:
      “Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?” he asked.¶“Too many,” Kirk quipped. The crowd clapped and cheered.¶Five, the audience member claimed. “Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?” the man continued. Kirk leaned forward and picked up his mic before setting back into an upright position. “Counting or notcounting gang violence?” he said.¶A loud “pop” suddenly rang out.¶Kirk lurched back and to the left. Blood splashed from his neck onto his white shirt.
  6. (transitive) Toconsider something as an example of something or as having some quality; toaccount, toregard as.
    Hecounts himself a hero after saving the cat from the river.
    Icount you as more than a friend.
  7. (transitive) Toreckon in, toinclude inconsideration.
    They walked for three days, notcounting the time spent resting.
  8. (intransitive, obsolete) To take account or note (of), tocare (for).
  9. (transitive, obsolete) Torecount, totell.
  10. (intransitive, UK, law, obsolete) Topleadorally; toargue a matter incourt; to recite a count.[1]
Conjugation
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Conjugation ofcount
infinitive(to)count
present tensepast tense
1st-personsingularcountcounted
2nd-personsingularcount,countest†counted,countedst†
3rd-personsingularcounts,counteth†counted
pluralcount
subjunctivecountcounted
imperativecount—
participlescountingcounted
Synonyms
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Derived terms
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Terms derived fromcount (verb)
Related terms
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Translations
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to enumerate or determine number—see alsocompute,‎tally
to be of significance; to matter

Noun

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count (pluralcounts)

  1. Theact ofcounting ortallying a quantity.
    Give the chairs a quickcount to check if we have enough.
    Breathe out slowly through your mouth for acount of five.
  2. The result of atally that reveals thenumber of items in a set; aquantitycounted.
    • 2014,Elizabeth Kolbert,The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador,→ISBN, page177:
      By the officialcount, 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.
  3. Acountdown.
  4. (law) Adistinct andseparatecharge in anindictment orcomplaint.
    • 2025 June 19, “Student who raped 10 women jailed for 24 years”, inbbc.com‎[4]:
      Zou, who was living in Elephant and Castle, south-east London, was convicted of 11counts of rape, with two of the offences relating to one victim. He was also convicted of threecounts of voyeurism, 10 of possession of an extreme pornographic image, one of false imprisonment and three of possession of a controlled drug with intent to commit a sexual offence.
    • 2025 November 12, David Stubbings, “Knife attack: heroes hailed for saving lives”, inRAIL, number1048, page10:
      Anthony Williams (32), of Langford Road, Peterborough, was arrested and charged with tencounts of attempted murder, onecount of ABH (Actual Bodily Harm), and onecount of possession of a bladed article.
  5. (baseball) The number ofballs andstrikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progressplate appearance.
    He has a 3–2count with the bases loaded.
  6. (obsolete) An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
  7. (minced oath, slang)Cunt(the tabooswear word)
    Thatcount deserves a punishment.
Derived terms
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Terms derived fromcount (noun)
Translations
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the act of counting
the result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set
a countdown
a charge of misconduct
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Adjective

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count (notcomparable)

  2. (linguistics, grammar)Countable.
    • 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, inWorld Englishes, page118:
      For example, the termabuse would require at least one definition for the uncount usage ‘invective, insulting language’, and another for thecount usage ‘an item of invective, an insult’.
  3. (shipping, marketing)Used to show the amount of like items in a package.
Derived terms
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References

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  1. ^Alexander M[ansfield] Burrill (1850–1851), “COUNT”, inA New Law Dictionary and Glossary: […], volume(please specify |part= or |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: John S. Voorhies, […],→OCLC.

Etymology 2

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EnglishWikipedia has an article on:
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FromMiddle Englishcounte, fromAnglo-Normanconte andOld Frenchcomte(“count”), fromLatincomes(“companion”) (more specifically derived from its accusative formcomitem) in the sense of "noble fighting alongside the king".Doublet ofcomes,comte, andconte.

Noun

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count (pluralcounts)

  1. Themaleruler of acounty.
  2. Anoblemanholding arankintermediate betweendukes andbarons.
  3. (entomology) Any of variousnymphalid butterflies of the genusTanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are calledearls andviscounts.
Hyponyms
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  • comte(“French count”)
  • conte(“Italian count”)
  • earl(“English count”)
  • graaf(“Dutch count”)
  • graf(“German count”)
Derived terms
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Related terms
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Translations
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ruler of a county (male)
See also
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Anagrams

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Middle English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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count

  1. alternative form ofcunte

Etymology 2

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Verb

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count

  1. alternative form ofcounten
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