Count vs. Viscount
Countverb
(intransitive) To recite numbers in sequence.
Countverb
(transitive) To determine the number (of objects in a group).
Countverb
(intransitive) To be of significance; to matter.
Countverb
(intransitive) To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun.
Countverb
(transitive) To consider something an example of something.
Countverb
(obsolete) To take account or note (of).
Countverb
To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.
Countnoun
The act of counting or tallying a quantity.
Countnoun
The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.
Countnoun
A countdown.
Countnoun
(legal) A charge of misconduct brought in a legal proceeding.
Countnoun
(baseball) The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.
Countnoun
(obsolete) An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
Countnoun
The male ruler of a county.
Countnoun
A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.
Countnoun
(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called earls and viscounts.
Countadjective
Countable.
Countverb
To tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number; to enumerate; to compute; to reckon.
Countverb
To place to an account; to ascribe or impute; to consider or esteem as belonging.
Countverb
To esteem; to account; to reckon; to think, judge, or consider.
Countverb
To number or be counted; to possess value or carry weight; hence, to increase or add to the strength or influence of some party or interest; as, every vote counts; accidents count for nothing.
Countverb
To reckon; to rely; to depend; - with on or upon.
Countverb
To take account or note; - with
Countverb
To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.
Countnoun
The act of numbering; reckoning; also, the number ascertained by counting.
Countnoun
An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
Countnoun
A formal statement of the plaintiff's case in court; in a more technical and correct sense, a particular allegation or charge in a declaration or indictment, separately setting forth the cause of action or prosecution.
Countnoun
A nobleman on the continent of Europe, equal in rank to an English earl.
Countnoun
the total number counted;
Countnoun
the act of counting;
Countnoun
a nobleman (in various countries) having rank equal to a British earl
Countverb
determine the number or amount of;
Countverb
have weight; have import, carry weight;
Countverb
show consideration for; take into account;
Countverb
name or recite the numbers;
Countverb
put into a group;
Countverb
include as if by counting;
Countverb
have faith or confidence in;
Countverb
take account of;
Count
Count (feminine: countess) is a historical title of nobility in certain European countries, varying in relative status, generally of middling rank in the hierarchy of nobility. The etymologically related English term denoted the land owned by a count.
Viscountnoun
A member of the peerage, above a baron but below a count or earl.
Viscountnoun
(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called earls and counts.
Viscountnoun
An officer who formerly supplied the place of the count, or earl; the sheriff of the county.
Viscountnoun
A nobleman of the fourth rank, next in order below an earl and next above a baron; also, his degree or title of nobility. See Peer, n., 3.
Viscountnoun
(in various countries) a son or younger brother or a count
Viscountnoun
a British peer who ranks below an earl and above a baron
Viscount
A viscount ( (listen) VY-kownt, for male) or viscountess (, for female) is a title used in certain European countries for a noble of varying status. In many countries a viscount, and its historical equivalents, was a non-hereditary, administrative or judicial position, and did not develop into an hereditary title until much later.
