Word Meanings - ACCOUNT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time. A beggarly account of empty boxes. Shak. 2. A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings

Additional info about word: ACCOUNT

1. A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time. A beggarly account of empty boxes. Shak. 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 judgment thereon. Give an account of thy stewardship. Luke xvi. 2. 6. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment. "To stand high in your account." Shak. 7. Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit. "Men of account." Pope. "To turn to account." Shak. Account current, a running or continued account between two or more parties, or a statement of the particulars of such an account. -- In account with, in a relation requiring an account to be kept. -- On account of, for the sake of; by reason of; because of. -- On one's own account, for one's own interest or behalf. -- To make account, to have an opinion or expectation; to reckon. s other part . . . makes account to find no slender arguments for this assertion out of those very scriptures which are commonly urged against it. Milton. -- To make account of, to hold in estimation; to esteem; as, he makes small account of beauty. -- To take account of, or to take into account, to take into consideration; to notice. "Of their doings, God takes no account." Milton -- A writ of account , a writ which the plaintiff brings demanding that the defendant shall render his just account, or show good cause to the contrary; -- called also an action of account. Cowell. Syn. -- Narrative; narration; relation; recital; description; explanation; rehearsal. -- 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. 1. To reckon; to compute; to count. The motion of . . . the sun whereby years are accounted. Sir T. Browne. 2. To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; -- with to. Clarendon. 3. To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem. Accounting that God was able to raise him up. Heb. xi. 19. 4. To recount; to relate. Chaucer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ACCOUNT)

• Bill
• Account
• reckoning
• score
• charges
• jaw
• mandible
• beak
• Cause
• Source
• origin
• producer
• agent
• creator
• purpose
• inducement
• reason
• account
• principle
• motive
• object
• suit
• action
• Ground
• Basis
• foundation
• premise
• cause
• plea
• Reason
• explanation
• proof
• apology
• understanding
• reasoning
• rationality
• right
• propriety
• justice
• order
• sake
• Reckon
• Compute
• calculate
• count
• regard
• estimate
• value
• consider
• argue
• infer
• judge

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ACCOUNT)

• Disesteem
• misestimate
• mystify
• understate
• undervalue
• perplex
• darken
• Chance
• risk
• hazard
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake
• Miss
• overlook
• disregard
• despise
• dislike
• contemn
• hate
• loathe
• misconsider
• misconceive
• misjudge
• Miscompute
• disesteem
• vilipend
• underrate
• underestimate
• cheapen
• vilify

Related words: (words related to ACCOUNT)

• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• COUNTERBRACE
  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• DARKEN
  Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• COUNTERFLEURY
  Counterflory.
• COUNTERVIEW
  1. An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other. Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin, In counterview. Milton M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendixx.
• COUNTABLE
  Capable of being numbered.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• OBJECTIVENESS
  Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
• APOLOGY
  1. Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity. It is not my intention to make an apology for my poem;
• COUNTERJUMPER
  A salesman in a shop; a shopman; -- used contemtuously.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• UNPERPLEX
  To free from perplexity. Donne.