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include

verbnouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ɪnˈkluːd//
  • United States//ɪnˈkluːd//

To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.

verb

  1. 1

    To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.

    I will purchase the vacation package if you will include car rental.

  2. 2

    To consider as part of something; to comprehend.

    The vacation package includes car rental.

    Does this volume of Shakespeare include his sonnets?

    I was included in the invitation to the family gathering.

    up to and including page twenty-five

  3. 3

    obsoleteTo enclose, confine.

    I could have here willingly ranged, but these straits wherein I am included will not permit.

  4. 4

    obsoleteTo conclude; to terminate.

    Come, let us go; we will include all jars / With triumphs, mirth, and rare solemnity.

  5. 5

    To use a directive that allows the use of source code from another file.

    You have to include the strings library to use this function.

Etymology

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”).

noun

  1. 1

    A piece of source code or other content that is dynamically retrieved for inclusion in another item.

    In the previous lesson, you learned how to use server-side includes, which enable you to easily include snippets of web pages within other web pages.

Forms

plural
includes
past tense
included
past participle
included
present participle
including
third person singular
includes
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).