Meaning of census | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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
2. 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.
   countable, uncountable
3. Count, tally
4. Count, tally.
   countable, uncountable
5. A type of tax levied by feudal lords on peasants
6. A type of tax levied by feudal lords on peasants.
   countable, historical, uncountable
7. A count of the number of individual patterns within a larger pattern, most often the ash of a soup or a methuselah
8. A count of the number of individual patterns within a larger pattern, most often the ash of a soup or a methuselah.
   countable, uncountable
9. To conduct a census on

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Examples

“As you know, the Imperium has never been able to take a census of the Fremen. Everyone thinks that there are but few wandering here and there in the desert. My Lord, I suspect an incredible secret has been kept on this planet: that the Fremen exist in vast numbers- vast- and it is they who control Arrakis.”

“In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included ...”

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