count
About 32.18 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To recite numbers in sequence.
Can you count to a hundred?
- verb 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.
- verb To amount to, to number in total.
- verb To be of significance; to matter; to be considered (as something); to be included (of something).
Your views don’t count here.
- verb To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun.
Apples count as a type of fruit.
- verb 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.
- verb To reckon in, to include in consideration.
They walked for three days, not counting the time spent resting.
- verb To take account or note (of), to care (for).
Similar words
enumeration enumerate numeration reckoning reckon number weigh consider matter tally
Often followed by
of on the as de for and is in
Word family
counted counting counts
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