census
An official count or enumeration of members of a population, usually residents or…An official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.
» In Japan, a census is taken every five years.
In Japan findet einmal alle fünf Jahre eine Volkszählung statt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
5 senses(countable, uncountable)An official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.
Zensus, Volkszählung, Befragung
пе́репись населе́нияpérepisʹ naselénija, пе́реписьpérepisʹ
пере́пис насе́ленняperépys nasélennja, пере́писperépys
(countable, uncountable)The people being treated in a healthcare facility, clinic or program.
(countable, uncountable)Count, tally.
a periodic count of the population
(countable, historical, uncountable)A type of tax levied by feudal lords on peasants.
(countable, uncountable)A count of the number of individual patterns within a larger pattern, most often the ash of a soup or a methuselah.
Examples
14 sentencesIn Japan, a census is taken every five years.
deIn Japan findet einmal alle fünf Jahre eine Volkszählung statt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
In Japan, a census is conducted every five years.
deIn Japan findet einmal alle fünf Jahre eine Volkszählung statt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
In the United States, there is a census every ten years.
У Сполучених Штатах кожні десять років проходить перепис населення. — deniko
ruВ США каждые десять лет производится перепись населения. — sharptoothed
deIn den Vereinigten Staaten findet alle zehn Jahre eine Volkszählung statt. — MUIRIEL
In the United States, a census takes place every ten years.
У Сполучених Штатах кожні десять років проходить перепис населення. — deniko
ruВ США перепись населения проходит каждые десять лет. — odexed
deIn den Vereinigten Staaten findet alle zehn Jahre eine Volkszählung statt. — MUIRIEL
What's a census?
Що представляє собою перепис населення? — deniko
deWas ist eine Volkszählung? — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Translations
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Origin
Borrowed from Latin cēnsus, from cēnseō. See censor.Borrowed from Latin cēnsus, from cēnseō. See censor.
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Forms
plural: censuses / censusses / censusSynonyms
2 synonyms- a periodic count of the population:nose countnosecount
Word family
11 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.