census

«census» in Mova's school dictionary: An official count of all the people in a country, with… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a census, censuses)

meaning for a pupil

1) An official count of all the people in a country, with facts such as their ages and jobs. tree →

2) Any official count, for example of animals or birds (a bird census). tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths and geography: census data shows how many people live in a place; used in graphs and tables. In history: censuses help find families. Phrase: take a census, census data.

examples

• The government takes a census every ten years. tree →
• The census showed the town had grown. tree →
• We made a graph of census data in maths. tree →
• Volunteers took a census of the frogs in the pond. tree →
• The census counts everyone living in the country. tree →
• Our class did a census of pets: 12 dogs and 9 cats. tree →

note

Plural: censuses. Not the same as «consensus» (agreement) or «senses». Census numbers are counts, so they are whole numbers.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «census» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.