account
/əˈkaʊnt/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.21 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
noun
A bank account.
noun
A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
noun
A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
noun
An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
noun
Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
noun
Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
Example Sentences
- "The firm failed to file its accounts on time."
- "The money was refunded to her account."
- "The Pueblo bank has advised that the operator opened an account at that bank with currency, and a few days later withdrew the amount."
- "Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training."
- "No satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena."
- "Give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Old French a- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin putus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin putō Latin computō Old French conter Old French aconter Anglo-Norman acuntebor. Middle English acounte English account From Middle English acounte, from Anglo-Norman acunte (“account”), from Old French aconte, from aconter (“to reckon”), from Latin computō (“to sum up”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *pewH-, acounte, acunte, aconte, computō, acounter
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈkaʊnt/
Usage
Inflected Forms
accounts (plural)
accounts (present, singular)
accounting (participle, present)
accounted (participle, past)
accounted (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
accounted (first person, past)
accountest (archaic, present)
accounted (past, second person)
accountedst (archaic, past)
accounteth (archaic, present)