census
Noun · VerbUS[sen-suhs]/ˈsɛnsəs/2 syllables
Open English WordNet
Noun (1)
- a periodic count of the populationSynonyms: nose countnosecountType of count, counting
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Translations
Noun official count of members of a population
- Spanish
- censo
- French
- recensement
- German
- Volkszählung
- Italian
- censimento
- Portuguese
- censo
- Turkish
- nüfus sayımı
- Russian
- пе́репись pérepisʹ
- Arabic
- تَعْدَاد taʕdād
- Chinese
- 人口普查 rénkǒu pǔchá
- Japanese
- 人口調査 jinkō chōsa
21 more languages
- Dutch
- volkstelling
- Swedish
- folkräkning
- Greek
- απογραφή apografí
- Korean
- 인구조사 in'gujosa
- Indonesian
- sensus
- Hungarian
- népszámlálás
- Portuguese (PT)
- censo
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 人口普查 rénkǒu pǔchá
- Catalan
- cens
- Czech
- sčítání lidu
- Esperanto
- censo
- Estonian
- rahvaloendus
- Finnish
- väestönlaskenta
- Icelandic
- manntal
- Norwegian
- folketelling
- Romanian
- recensământ
- Serbo-Croatian
- cenzus
- Slovak
- sčítanie ľudu
- Swahili
- sensa
- Welsh
- cyfrifiad
- Yiddish
- צענזוס tsenzus
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Cen′sus noun
Origin: L. census, fr. censere. See Censor.
1. Bot. Antiq. A numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; — usually made once in five years.
2. An official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country.
☞ A general census of the United States was first taken in 1790, and one has been taken at the end of every ten years since.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54