/əˈkaʊnt/

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Meaning

Money that you keep at a bank, or a report of what happened.

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Word origin

From Old French aconter, meaning to count or reckon, from Latin computare.

Origin
Old French
Root
aconter
English cognates
count, compute

Grammar

Gender
Pluralaccounts

Examples

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A bank account holds the money you keep at a bank.

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Here "account" means a report of what happened.

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"Accounts" is the plural form.

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This word is taught in chapter 13, lesson 4: account, nervous, themselves and 7 more words.