account

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Quotations 1.2.1.2 Synonyms 1.2.1.3 Derived terms 1.2.1.4 Translations 1.2.1.5 Usage notes 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Verb 1.3.1.1 Derived terms 1.3.1.2 Translations 1.4 Related terms 1.5 External links 2 Dutch 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Noun 3 Italian 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Noun 4 Middle English 4.1 Verb

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[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ə'kaʊnt/
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• Rhymes: -aʊnt
• Hyphenation: ac‧count

[edit] Etymology 1

From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman acunt (“‘account’”), from Old French acont, from aconter (“‘to reckon’”), from Latin computo (“‘to sum up’”)

[edit] Noun

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account (plural accounts)

1. (archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning
2. A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank.
3. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.
4. A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle.
   • A laudable account of the city of London. - Howell
5. A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgement thereon.
   • Give an account of thy stewardship. - Luke 16:2
6. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgement.
   • To stand high in your account - Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, III-ii
7. Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit.
   • Men of account - Alexander Pope
   • To turn to account - Shakespeare
8. A subscription to a service.

   I've opened an account with Wikipedia so that I can contribute and partake in the project.

[edit] Quotations

• For examples of the usage of this term see the citations page.

[edit] Synonyms

• narrative; narration; relation; recital; description; explanation; rehearsal
• (a subscription to a service): membership, registration, username

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[edit] Usage notes

• of Account, narrative, Narration, Recital. These words are applied to different modes of rehearsing a series of events
• Account turns attention not so much to the speaker as to the fact related, and more properly applies to the report of some single event, or a group of incidents taken as whole; as, an account of a battle, of a shipwreck, etc.
• A narrative is a continuous story of connected incidents, such as one friend might tell to another; as, a narrative of the events of a siege, a narrative of one's life, etc.
• Narration is usually the same as narrative, but is sometimes used to describe the mode of relating events; as, his powers of narration are uncommonly great.
• Recital denotes a series of events drawn out into minute particulars, usually expressing something which peculiarly interests the feelings of the speaker; as, the recital of one's wrongs, disappointments, sufferings, etc.

[edit] Etymology 2

From Middle English acounten, accompten, from Old French aconter, from à (from Latin ad) + conter (“‘to count’”), from Latin computo. See count.

[edit] Verb

to account (third-person singular simple present accounts, present participle accounting, simple past and past participle accounted)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To reckon; to compute; to count.

   The motion of... the sun whereby years are accounted. - Sir Thomas Browne

2. (transitive, rare, with "to") To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign. Edward Hyde Clarendon
3. (transitive) To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem.
   • Accounting that God was able to raise him up. - Hebrews, 11:19
4. (intransitive) To render or receive an account or relation of particulars

   An officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.

5. (intransitive, with "for") To render an account; to answer in judgement.

   We must account for the use of our opportunities.

6. (intransitive, with "for") To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain

   Idleness accounts for poverty.

7. (transitive) To get revenge on.

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[edit] Related terms

• accountable
• accountant

[edit] External links

• account at OneLook® Dictionary Search
• account in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ə'kɑʊnt/

[edit] Noun

account m., n.

1. A loanword from English that means a subscription to an electronic service.

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English

[edit] Noun

account m. inv.

1. (computing) account

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[edit] Middle English

[edit] Verb

to account

1. (transitive) To recount; to relate. - Chaucer