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Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : kount
Phonetic Transcription : kaʊnt



Definition of count

Origin :
  • mid-14c., from Old French conter "add up," but also "tell a story," from Latin computare (see compute). Related: Counted; counting. Modern French differentiates compter "to count" and conter "to tell," but they are cognates.
  • noun tally; number
  • verb add, check in order
  • verb consider, deem
  • verb have importance
  • verb include
Example sentences :
  • "Count me in, please," said Blanche, in her usual vein of frankness.
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Their weight was too great not to count, but it counted first this way and then that.
  • Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
  • It was in fact a little way beyond what she had come to count her limit.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • She says that her record of five years in your employ ought to count something in her favor.
  • Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
  • Usually one might count on the woman's silence, her instinct for self-protection.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • The king, her father, wishing her to come to him, sent for her by a Count.
  • Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
  • I know also that there are some bad people, but they do not count.
  • Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
  • The little points are all pretty, he thought, and it is the details that count in the long run.
  • Extract from : « Quaint Courtships » by Various
  • In regard to each of these, the young man must count the cost.
  • Extract from : « The Call of the Twentieth Century » by David Starr Jordan
  • I made him come—old grandfather, sleeping there: he does not count, but you—you!
  • Extract from : « Green Mansions » by W. H. Hudson

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