Associations to the word «Census»

Wiktionary

CENSUS, noun. An official count of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.
CENSUS, verb. To collect a census.

Dictionary definition

CENSUS, noun. A periodic count of the population.
CENSUS, verb. Conduct a census; "They censused the deer in the forest".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne