Usually means: Official count of population, demographics.
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We found 52 dictionaries that define the word census:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. census: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. census: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. census: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. census: Collins English Dictionary
  5. census: Vocabulary.com
  6. Census, census: Wordnik
  7. census: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. census: Wiktionary
  9. census: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. census: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. census: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Census, census: Dictionary.com
  13. census: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. census: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Census: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Census: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. census: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. census: Rhymezone
  19. census: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. census: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. CENSUS: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. census: Free Dictionary
  23. census: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. census: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. census: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. census: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Media Terms (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. census: Legal dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. census: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. census: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. Political (No longer online)
  3. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  4. CENSUS, CENSUS, CENSUS: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  5. CENSUS: Acronym Finder
  6. Glossary of Population Terms (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Census: Easton Bible
  2. Census: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Avian Terms For Use in Avian Conservation Biology (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Census: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. census: Coin Collecting

(Note: See censuses as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.
noun:  Count, tally.
verb:  (transitive) To conduct a census on.
verb:  (intransitive) To collect a census.

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