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Noun

Census (plural Censuses)
  1. An official count of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.

Verb

Census (third-person singular simple present censuses, present participle censusing, simple past and past participle censused)

  1. To collect a census.

Adjectives for Census

national; biennial; previous; rough; partial.

Thesaurus

poll, program, property roll, quantification, quantization, questionnaire, recapitulation, reckoning, recount, recounting, rehearsal, repertory, returns, rodeo, roll, roll call, roster, rota, roundup, scroll, statement, summary, summation, summing, summing up, survey, table, table of organization, tallying, tax roll, telling, whole, account, accounting, accounts, agenda, assemblage, assembly, beadroll, body count, cadastre, calendar, call-up, canvass, capitulation, census report, checklist, checkroll, code, collection, colligation, collocation, combination, comparison, composition, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conflux, congregation, constituents, content, contents, convergence, corralling, count, counting, dactylonomy, data-gathering, digest, divisions, docket, dramatis personae, elements, enumeration, foliation, gathering, guts, head count, honor roll, index, ingathering, ingredients, innards, insides, inventory, inventorying, items, junction, jury list, jury panel, juxtaposition, lineup, list, measurement, mobilization, muster, muster roll, nose count, numbering, numeration, order of business, pagination, part, parts,

Etymology

From Latin census, from cēnseō. See censor.

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Latin

Noun

cēnsus (genitive censūs); m, fourth declension

  1. Census, a registering of the populace and their property
  2. A register resulting from a census.
  3. (poetic) Rich gifts, presents,

Inflection

Number Singular Plural
nominative cēnsus cēnsūs
genitive cēnsūs cēnsuum
dative cēnsuī cēnsibus
accusative cēnsum cēnsūs
ablative cēnsū cēnsibus
vocative cēnsus cēnsūs
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