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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To take in as a part, element, or member.
  2. v. To contain as a secondary or subordinate element.
  3. v. To consider with or place into a group, class, or total: thanked the host for including us.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To confine within something; hold as in an inclosure; inclose; contain.
  2. To comprise as a part, or as something incident or pertinent; comprehend; take in: as, the greater includes the less; this idea includes many particulars; the Roman empire included many nations. In logic a term is said to include under it the subjects of which it can be predicated, and to include within itself its essential predicates.
  3. To conclude; terminate.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.
  2. v. To contain, as parts of a whole.
  3. n. computing A piece of source code or other content that is dynamically retrieved for inclusion in another item.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose
  2. v. To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason the inference; to contain; to embrace
  3. v. obsolete To conclude; to end; to terminate.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. add as part of something else; put in as part of a set, group, or category
  2. v. have as a part, be made up out of
  3. v. consider as part of something
  4. v. allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of

Etymologies

  1. (1420) From Latin includere ("to shut in, enclose, insert"), from in- ("in") + claudere ("to shut"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English includen, from Latin inclūdere, to enclose : in-, in; see in-2 + claudere, to close. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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