census
census is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.An official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country. Note: A general census of the United States was first taken in 1790, and one has been taken at the end of every ten years since.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- account
- address
- aid
- almanac
- army
- atlas
- bead
- bill
- book
- cadaster
- cadastral
- cadastre
- card
- carte
- cartulary
- catalog
- catalogue
- chart
- check
- checker
- civil
- clergy
- collate
- concordance
- contents
- dictionary
- diptych
- directory
- document
- enumerate
- fare
- file
- glossary
- index
- inventory
- inverted
- invoice
- itemize
- jury
- lading
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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