include

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To have something as a part of a whole.

   The list includes the names of many famous writers.

2. 2
   verb

   To make someone or something part of a group, set, or total.

   I'll buy the holiday package if you include car rental.

From Middle English includen, borrowed from Latin inclūdere (“to shut in, enclose, insert”), from in- (“in”) + claudere (“to shut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂w- (“key, hook, nail”). Doublet of enclose. Displaced native Old English belūcan (“to include,” also “to shut in”).

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