Definitions for census

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census cen·sus

Spelling: [sen-suh s]

IPA: /ˈsɛn səs/

Census is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in census (censsu).

Definitions for census

noun

1. an official enumeration of the population, with details as to age, sex, occupation, etc.
2. (in ancient Rome) the registration of citizens and their property, for purposes of taxation.

verb (used with object)

1. to take a census of (a country, city, etc.):

Origin of census

1605-15; Latin: a listing and property assessment of citizens, equivalent to cēns(ēre) to assess, register (citizens) in a census + -tus suffix of v. action; for -s- in place of -st- see

Examples for census

By the census of 1870 the number of insane persons in the State was 3,414.

For the first time in our history, according to the census Bureau, blacks are now voting at a higher rate than whites.

According to the census Bureau, 49 percent of Americans receive some kind of government benefits.

This can be verified by reference to any census of any penal institution.

The diminution revealed by the 1911 census amounts to 76,000.

The percentage of males in the State by the census of 1900 was 52.3.

Just 0.5 percent of Ferguson is of Asian descent, according to 2010 U.S. census data.

Every 10 years, after the census, legislators get together and draw district lines in collusion.

He tells us that when our first census was taken only four per cent.

Byrne invented a deceased husband named William K. Richard and hid herself from census takers.