# numerous
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English numerous from Latin numerōsus (“numerous, abundant; harmonious”), from numerus (“number”). Doublet of numerose. Analyzeable as numero- +‎ -ous.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈnuməɹəs/, /ˈnumɹəs/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈnjuːməɹəs/, /ˈnjuːmɹəs/
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* Rhymes: -uːməɹəs
* Hyphenation: nu‧mer‧ous, num‧erous

### Determiner

numerous
* An indefinite large number of.
    Synonym: many
    Antonyms: a couple of, a few, a handful of, several; one
    Hypernyms: multiple, various
    Hyponym: countless
    There are numerous definitions of the word 'man'.
    There are numerous reasons to refrain.
** 2012 March-April, Colin Allen, “Do I See What You See?”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, United States: Sigma Xi, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 April 2012, page 168:Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.

### Adjective

numerous (comparative more numerous, superlative most numerous)
* Indefinitely large numerically; many.
    The reasons to refrain are numerous.
* Consisting of a large number of individuals or parts.
** 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 10, page 263:A numerous band of men and maidens escorts him by torchlight.

#### Synonyms

* many, multiple; see also Thesaurus:manifold

#### Antonyms

* unnumerous

#### Derived terms

* numerosity
* overnumerous
* supernumerous

#### Translations

Arabic: عَدِيد (ʕadīd), كَثِير (ar) (kaṯīr)
Armenian: բազմաթիվ (hy) (bazmatʻiv)
Azerbaijani: çoxsaylı, çoxlu (az)
Belarusian: шматлі́кі (šmatlíki)
Bulgarian: многобро́ен (bg) (mnogobróen), многочи́слен (bg) (mnogočíslen)
Catalan: nombrós (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 眾多 / 众多 (zh) (zhòngduō), 多 (zh) (duō)
Czech: četný (cs), početný (cs)
Danish: talrig
Dutch: talrijk (nl), ontelbaar (nl), numereus
Egyptian: (ꜥšꜣ)
Esperanto: multnombra
Estonian: arvukas
Finnish: lukuisa (fi)
French: nombreux (fr)
Galician: numeroso (gl)
Georgian: ურიცხვი (uricxvi), უამრავი (uamravi), დიდძალი (didʒali)
German: zahlreich (de), vielzählig
Hebrew: רַב (he) (rav)
Hungarian: számos (hu), nagyszámú (hu)
Icelandic: fjölmargur
Ingrian: suurlukuin
Interlingua: numerose
Irish: líonmhar
Italian: numeroso (it)
Japanese: 多数の (ja) (たすうの, tasū no), 多い (ja) (おおい, ōi)
Korean: 수많다 (ko) (sumanta), 다수의 (ko) (dasuui)
Latin: numerōsus, frequens, creber
Latvian: daudzskaitlīgs
Lithuanian: gausus
Low German:
German Low German: tahlriek, tallriek
Macedonian: многуброен (mnogubroen), броен (broen)
Malayalam: അനേകം (ml) (anēkaṁ), നിരവധി (ml) (niravadhi), കുറേ (ml) (kuṟē)
Maori: makiu, tini makiu, maruru, maha, ngeangea, huhua, tini whāioio, mahamaha, tīpatere, makehua, tini makehua
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tallrik (no)
Nynorsk: talrik
Old English: getælfull
Ottoman Turkish: چوك (çok), كثرت اوزره (kesret üzere)
Polish: liczny (pl)
Portuguese: numeroso (pt)
Romanian: numeros (ro)
Russian: многочи́сленный (ru) (mnogočíslennyj)
Sanskrit: बहु (sa) (bahu)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бро̑јан, мно̏гобро̄јан
Roman: brȏjan (sh), mnȍgobrōjan (sh)
Slovak: početný
Slovene: številen, številčen
Spanish: numeroso (es)
Swedish: talrik (sv)
Turkish: sayısız (tr) (literally “without a number”), çok sayıda (literally “in large quantities”), birçok (tr)
Ukrainian: багаточи́сельний (bahatočýselʹnyj), числе́нний (uk) (čyslénnyj)
Uyghur: نۇرغۇن (nurghun)
Vietnamese: đông (vi), nhiều (vi) :