account

Meanings

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.
• A bank account.
• A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
• A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
• A record of events; a relation or narrative.
• An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
• Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
• Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
• A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
• Profit; advantage.

Verb

• To provide explanation.
• To count.

Origin

• From Middle English acounte, from Anglo-Norman acunte ("account"), from Old French aconte, from aconter, from Latin computō ("to sum up").
• From Old French acounter, accomptere et al., from a- + conter). Compare count.