CENSUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does census mean? 

• CENSUS (noun)
  The noun CENSUS has 1 sense:

1. a periodic count of the population

  Familiarity information: CENSUS used as a noun is very rare.

• CENSUS (verb)
  The verb CENSUS has 1 sense:

1. conduct a census

  Familiarity information: CENSUS used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CENSUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A periodic count of the population

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

census; nose count; nosecount

Hypernyms ("census" is a kind of...):

count; counting; enumeration; numeration; reckoning; tally (the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order)

Derivation:

census (conduct a census)

• CENSUS (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they census    ... he / she / it censuses   
Past simple: censused   
Past participle: censused   
-ing form: censusing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Conduct a census

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

They censused the deer in the forest

Hypernyms (to "census" is one way to...):

count; enumerate; number; numerate (determine the number or amount of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

census (a periodic count of the population)

 Context examples 

A census division of the United States consisting of New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.

(Middle Atlantic Census Division, NCI Thesaurus)

A census region of the United States consisting of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota.

(Midwestern United States Census Region, NCI Thesaurus)

A census division of the United States consisting of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.

(Mountain States Census Division, NCI Thesaurus)

A census division of the United States consisting of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.

(New England Census Division, NCI Thesaurus)

If he doesn't, and some nursemaid goes a-walkin' orf with a soldier, leavin' of the hinfant in the perambulator—well, then I shouldn't be surprised if the census is one babby the less.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A census division of the United States consisting of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin.

(East North Central States Census Division, NCI Thesaurus)

A census division of the United States consisting of Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington.

(Pacific States Census Division, NCI Thesaurus)

Working in the Galapagos Islands, the biologists studied wave motions, conducted underwater experiments and used marine life censuses to evaluate the effects of wave turbulence on sea urchins and fish feeding on algae.

(Galapagos sea life study highlights importance of biodiversity in the face of climate change, National Science Foundation)

Groupings of states that are subdivisions of the four census regions.

(Census Division, NCI Thesaurus)

Groupings of states that subdivide the United States for the presentation of census data.

(Census Region, NCI Thesaurus)