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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/census/#m1)

2) Any official count, for example of animals or birds (a bird census). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/census/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/census/#x1)
- The census showed the town had grown. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/census/#x2)
- We made a graph of census data in maths. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/census/#x3)
- Volunteers took a census of the frogs in the pond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/census/#x4)
- The census counts everyone living in the country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/census/#x5)
- Our class did a census of pets: 12 dogs and 9 cats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/census/#x6)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/census/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.