List: counter
Words used along with numbers to count things, actions, and events.
counter
- counter for songs and poems
abbreviation noun noun (generic) counter
- company, firm, office, association, society
- (Shinto) shrine
- regional Chinese god of the earth (or a village built in its honour)
- counter for companies, shrines, etc.
- incorporated body, corporation, corporate juridical person
noun noun (generic) counter sports noun (suffix)
- sake cup, cup for alcoholic beverages
- counter for cupfuls, bowlfuls, spoonfuls, etc.
- counter for boats
- counter for octopuses and squid
- cup, championship
biology noun noun (generic) go (game) counter
- order
- item (of a budget revision, etc.)
- counter for go pieces, counter for surrounded positions
counter archaic
- counter for ships
- counter for half of a pair (e.g. half of a folding screen)
- counter for items carried in a bundle (e.g. fish, birds, arrows)
counter
- counter for collections or assemblies of flat objects (e.g. CDs, DVDs, etc.)
counter
- counter for (small) boats
noun noun (generic) counter conjunction historical term
- article (in a document), clause, section, provision
- counter for lines, stripes, streaks, rays, etc.
- although, though
- since, as, because, inasmuch as
- jÅ, north-south division of an imperial city consisting of west-east streets and their corresponding wards (in the jÅ-bÅ system)
suffix counter
- counter for buildings (esp. houses)
- suffix for a pen name, stage name, etc.
counter
- counter for long, thin things (i.e. swords)