Noun: census
| Singular | census |
| Plural | censuses; censusses; census |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1984, 43:03 from the start, in Dune (Science Fiction), spoken by Reverend Mother Ramallo, →OCLC:]
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In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included ... [1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 7, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:]
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cēnsus, from cēnseō. See censor. See: Latin Nouns '
cēnsus'.