count
See also: Count
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: kount, IPA(key): /kaʊnt/Category:English 1-syllable words#COUNTCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#COUNT
- (Northumbria) IPA(key): /kuːnt/Category:English 1-syllable words#COUNTCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#COUNT
- Rhymes: -aʊntCategory:Rhymes:English/aʊnt#COUNTCategory:Rhymes:English/aʊnt/1 syllable#COUNT
Etymology 1
Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#COUNTCategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pewH-#COUNTFrom Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#COUNTCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#COUNT counten, borrowed from Anglo-NormanCategory:English terms derived from Anglo-Norman#COUNT conter, from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#COUNT conter (“add up; tell a story”), from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#COUNT computō (“to compute”). In this sense, displaced native Old English tellan, whence Modern English tell. Doublet of computeCategory:English doublets#COUNT.
Compare typologically reckon, Russian счита́ть (sčitátʹ), счита́ться (sčitátʹsja); the semantic evolution to Mongolian санах (sanax).
Verb
count (third-person singular simple present counts, present participle counting, simple past and past participle counted)Category:English lemmas#COUNTCategory:English verbs#COUNTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#COUNTCategory:Pages with entries#COUNTCategory:Pages with 2 entries#COUNT
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#COUNT) To recite numbers in sequence.
- Can you count to a hundred?Category:English terms with usage examples#COUNTThe psychiatrist asked her to count down from a hundred by sevens.Category:English terms with usage examples#COUNT
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#COUNT) To determine the number of (objects in a group).
- Synonym: tell
- Count the number of apples in the bag and write down the number on the spreadsheet.Category:English terms with usage examples#COUNT
- 1803, Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution:
- The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;Category:English terms with quotations#COUNT
The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, […]
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#COUNT
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#COUNT) To amount to, to number in total.
- 1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto II, stanza LXIII, page 150:
- They counted thirty, crowded in a spaceCategory:English terms with quotations#COUNT
Which left scarce room for motion or exertion; […]
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#COUNT, figurative, passive-like) To be of significance; to matter; to be considered (as something); to be included (of something).
- Your views don’t count here.Category:English terms with usage examples#COUNT
- It does count if you cheat with someone when you’re drunk.Category:English terms with usage examples#COUNT
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#COUNT, figurative, passive-like) To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun.
- Apples count as a type of fruit.Category:English terms with usage examples#COUNT
- 1886, John Addington Symonds, Sir Philip Sidney:
- This excellent man […] counted among the best and wisest of English statesmen.Category:English terms with quotations#COUNT
- 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- 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 what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.Category:English terms with quotations#COUNT
- 2025 September 12, Eric Levenson, “Charlie Kirk’s final hours: How a stage for debate became a scene of tragedy”, in CNN, archived from the original on 12 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 not counting 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.Category:English terms with quotations#COUNT
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#COUNT) 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.Category:English terms with usage examples#COUNT
- I count you as more than a friend.Category:English terms with usage examples#COUNT
- c. 1587–1588 (date written), [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,Category:English terms with quotations#COUNT
Is far from villanie or ſeruitude,
And might in noble mindes be counted princely.
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#COUNT) To reckon in, to include in consideration.
- They walked for three days, not counting the time spent resting.Category:English terms with usage examples#COUNT
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#COUNT, obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#COUNT) To take account or note (of), to care (for).
- c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 23, column 2:
- […] to make her faire, that no man counts of her beauty.Category:English terms with quotations#COUNT
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#COUNT, obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#COUNT) To recount, to tell.
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#COUNT, UKCategory:British English#COUNT, lawCategory:en:Law#COUNT, obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#COUNT) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.[1]
Conjugation
| infinitive | (to) count | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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 | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| participles | counting | counted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Synonyms
- (determine the number of objects in a group): enumerate, number; see also Thesaurus:count
Derived terms
Terms derived from count (verb)
- almost doesn't count
- almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades
- be able to count on one's fingers
- black where it counts
- box-counting dimension
- but who's counting
- close only counts in horseshoes
- close only counts in horseshoes and darts
- close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades
- countability
- count against
- count agent
- count angels on pinheads
- count calories
- count cards
- count chickens
- count coup
- count-down
- count down
- countedness
- count 'em
- count in
- count noses
- count off
- count-off
- count on
- count one's blessings
- count one's chickens
- count one's days
- count one's lucky stars
- count on one hand
- count on the fingers of one hand
- countor
- count out
- count room
- count sheep
- count the hours
- count to 10
- count to 3
- count to 5
- count to five
- count to ten
- count to three
- count towards
- count-up
- count up
- count upon
- don't count your chickens before the eggs have hatched
- don't count your chickens before they're hatched
- double-count
- double count
- forecount
- it's the thought that counts
- it's what's inside that counts
- let me count the ways
- let us count the ways
- make it count
- miscount
- outcount
- overcount
- stand up and be counted
- uncount
- uncountability
- uncounted
- undercount
- where it counts
Related terms
Translations
to be of significance; to matter
Noun
count (plural counts)Category:English lemmas#COUNTCategory:English nouns#COUNTCategory:English countable nouns#COUNTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#COUNTCategory:Pages with entries#COUNTCategory:Pages with 2 entries#COUNT
- The act of counting or tallying a quantity.
- Give the chairs a quick count to check if we have enough.Category:English terms with usage examples#COUNT
- Breathe out slowly through your mouth for a count of five.Category:English terms with usage examples#COUNT
- The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.
- 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 177:
- By the official count, 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.Category:English terms with quotations#COUNT
- A countdown.
- (lawCategory:en:Law#COUNT) A distinct and separate charge in an indictment or complaint.
- 2025 June 19, “Student who raped 10 women jailed for 24 years”, in bbc.com:
- Zou, who was living in Elephant and Castle, south-east London, was convicted of 11 counts of rape, with two of the offences relating to one victim. He was also convicted of three counts 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.Category:English terms with quotations#COUNT
- 2025 November 12, David Stubbings, “Knife attack: heroes hailed for saving lives”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 10:
- Anthony Williams (32), of Langford Road, Peterborough, was arrested and charged with ten counts of attempted murder, one count of ABH (Actual Bodily Harm), and one count of possession of a bladed article.Category:English terms with quotations#COUNT
- (baseballCategory:en:Baseball#COUNT) 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.Category:English terms with usage examples#COUNT
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#COUNT) 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.Category:English terms with quotations#COUNT
- (minced oathCategory:English minced oaths#COUNT, slangCategory:English slang#COUNT) Cunt (the taboo swear word)
- That count deserves a punishment.Category:English terms with usage examples#COUNT
Derived terms
Terms derived from count (noun)
- ahead in the count
- behind in the count
- bit-count integrity
- blood count
- body count
- Borda count
- cell count
- complete blood count
- countback
- count circle
- count form
- countless
- countline
- count noun
- count plural
- countrate
- countwheel
- countwise
- day count convention
- down for the count
- fastball count
- full blood count
- full count
- hard count
- head count
- headcount
- hitter's count
- keep count
- kilocount
- king-count
- least count
- lose count
- miscount
- multicount
- no-count
- non-count
- nose count
- notch count
- on all counts
- on the count of
- out for the count
- photocount
- pitch count
- pitcher's count
- plate count
- plycount
- pollen count
- polycount
- postcount
- post count
- pseudocount
- read count
- soft count
- sperm count
- subcount
- take the count
- thread count
- undercount
- viewcount
- winter count
- word count
Translations
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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count (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#COUNTCategory:English adjectives#COUNTCategory:English uncomparable adjectives#COUNTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#COUNTCategory:Pages with entries#COUNTCategory:Pages with 2 entries#COUNT
- (linguisticsCategory:en:Linguistics#COUNT, grammarCategory:en:Grammar#COUNT) Countable.
- 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 118:
- For example, the term abuse would require at least one definition for the uncount usage ‘invective, insulting language’, and another for the count usage ‘an item of invective, an insult’.Category:English terms with quotations#COUNT
- (shippingCategory:en:Shipping#COUNT, marketingCategory:en:Marketing#COUNT) Used to show the amount of like items in a package.
Derived terms
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Etymology 2
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#COUNTCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#COUNT counte, from Anglo-NormanCategory:English terms derived from Anglo-Norman#COUNT conte and Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#COUNT comte (“count”), from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#COUNT comes (“companion”) (more specifically derived from its accusative form comitem) in the sense of "noble fighting alongside the king". Doublet of comes, comte, and conteCategory:English doublets#COUNT.
Noun
count (plural counts)Category:English lemmas#COUNTCategory:English nouns#COUNTCategory:English countable nouns#COUNTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#COUNTCategory:Pages with entries#COUNTCategory:Pages with 2 entries#COUNT
- The male ruler of a county.
- A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.
- (entomologyCategory:en:Entomology#COUNT) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus TanaeciaCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (genus)#Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called earls and viscounts.
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Derived terms
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Translations
ruler of a county (male)
See also
Anagrams
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countCategory:Middle English alternative forms#COUNTCategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#COUNTCategory:Pages with entries#COUNTCategory:Pages with 2 entries#COUNT
- alternative form of cunte
Etymology 2
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countCategory:Middle English alternative forms#COUNTCategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#COUNTCategory:Pages with entries#COUNTCategory:Pages with 2 entries#COUNT
- alternative form of counten
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