number
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *nem-
Proto-Italic *nomezos
Latin numerus
Anglo-Norman noumbrebor.
Middle English nombre
English number
Inherited from Middle English number, nombre, numbre, noumbre, from Anglo-Norman noumbre, Old French nombre, from Latin numerus (“number”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to divide”). Compare Saterland Frisian Nummer, Nuumer, West Frisian nûmer, Dutch nummer (“number”), German Nummer (“number”), Danish nummer (“number”), Swedish nummer (“number”), Icelandic númer (“number”). Replaced Middle English ȝetæl and rime, more at tell, tale and rhyme.
Inflected forms:
form: numbers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nummer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: numbre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: numbers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: numbering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: numbered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: numbered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: nummer
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: numbre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Quantity of countable things.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Any number of people can be reading from a given repository at a time.
There are, in addition to all the red socks, a number that don’t suit me either.
The number of malnourished children has decreased.
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.
Number itself importeth not much in armies where the people are of weak courage.
gloss: An abstract entity used to describe quantity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Zero, one, −1, 2.5, and pi are all numbers.
gloss: A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The number 8 is usually made with a single stroke.
The former FBI director James Comey has said it did not occur to him that that the numbers 8647 – which he spotted spelled out in seashells on a beach, and posted on social media – could be interpreted as a call to assassinate the president, as many supporters of Donald Trump have claimed.
gloss: An element of one of several sets: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, and sometimes extensions such as hypercomplex numbers, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The equation e#123;i#92;pi#125;#43;1#61;0 includes the most important numbers: 1, 0, #92;pi, i, and e.
gloss: Indicating the position of something in a list or sequence. Abbreviations: No or No., no or no. (in each case, sometimes written with a superscript "o", like Nº or №). The symbol "#" is also used in this manner.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
countable
uncountable
examples: Horse number 5 won the race.
gloss: A sequence of digits and letters used to register people, automobiles, and various other items.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Her passport number is C01X864TN.
You can take the number 8 (bus) all the way to the airport.
gloss: A telephone number.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
examples: Let's give her a call. Do you have her number handy?
I'm definitely interested. Here's my number. Call me back anytime.
Rikki, don't lose that number / You don't wanna call nobody else / Send it off in a letter to yourself
“[...] I wonder if you could get hold of him and have him call me here at Interior. I’m in my office, do you have my number?”
When I agreed to go surfing with him he said, “Great, can I have your number?” Well, I don’t give my number to guys I don’t know.
Marsha's work number is 555-8986.
gloss: Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Adjectives and nouns should agree in gender, number, and case.
gloss: Poetic metres; verses, rhymes.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
in-plural
uncountable
examples: Griefe brought to numbers cannot be ſo fierce, / For, he tames it, that fetters it in verſe.
As yet a Child, nor yet a Fool to Fame, / I liſp'd in Numbers, for the Numbers came.
gloss: A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: For his second number, he sang "The Moon Shines Bright".
gloss: A group of people.
pos: noun
tags: countable
formal
singular
singular-only
uncountable
examples: I include myself in their number.
As an association, we demonstrate near-Olympic sang-froid. As I write, the gods are smiling upon us, but in the past decade – not to mince words – two of our number have got divorced, one of us checked into rehab, and all of us have had distressful troubles with teenage kids.
gloss: A person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
examples: I laughed. "Don't doubt that. She's a saucy little number."
"Signorina Jessica," says the maid, a saucy little number, "your father has gone to his prayers and demands that you come to the synagogue at once [...]"
He had to focus on the mission, staying alive and getting out, not on the sexy number rubbing up against him.
gloss: An outfit, particularly a stylish one.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
examples: The trouble was I was wearing my backless glittering number from the night before underneath, so unless I could persuade the office it was National Fancy Dress Day I was doomed to sweat profusely in bottle blue.
"I doubt the sexy number you wore earlier tonight fell from the sky."
gloss: A marijuana cigarette, or joint; also, a quantity of marijuana bought from a dealer.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: These were the two that Tommy had chosen to collect a debt owed to his family by a dude named Heath who ran numbers out of a grocery store on 131st and Lenox.
Back at his place again, Doc rolled a number, put on a late movie, found an old T-shirt, and sat tearing it up into short strips […]
gloss: An issue of a periodical publication.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: the latest number of a magazine
When, in July, 1897, my father brought home the first number of The Railway Magazine, I little thought that, sixty years later, I should still be reading it, without having missed a single number.
gloss: A large amount, in contrast to a smaller amount; numerical preponderance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Despite last week's woes, the Braves still sport numbers that would make Christie Brinkley blush.
gloss: An activity; assignment; job, as in cushy number.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To total or count; to amount to.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I don’t know how many books are in the library, but they must number in the thousands.
Do they number in the hundreds, do they number in the thousands? Do they number in the tens of thousand?
gloss: To limit to a certain number; to reckon (as by fate) to be few in number.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The old man knew that his days were numbered.
THE DAYS OF ENGLAND NOT “NUMBERED.” REPLY TO SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON.
To conclude this book, we will let Lange’s photo and its three layers guide us. Each layer invites us to explore a different answer to this book's title question—how did our days become numbered?
gloss: To count; to determine the quantity of.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
literary
transitive
examples: The king ordered that all his subjects be numbered.
Who can number all the stars and who can count the desert sands?
From twentie yeare old and above, all that go forth to the warre in Iſrael, thou and Aaron ſhall number them, throughout their armies.
gloss: To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Number the baskets so that we can find them easily.
“Public Health Service Numbered Publications – A Catalog, 1950-1962” and contains those numbered publications issued during the period 1963-64.
Most of the remaining records in the War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records were designated "miscellaneous" records, consecutively numbered, and placed in a fourth large series of records that came to be known as […]
The remainder of the valley is laid off into cute little squares and streets, with everything named and numbered, ready to be listed in the brokers’ offices.
gloss: To call out and assign a series of numbers (usually to people), either for the sake of dividing into groups or for counting.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Shelley numbered off the group into two teams for the baseball game.
I counted them and numbered them off, and I found about three hundred and seventy or three hundred and seventy-five.
At my entrance, the Sergeant called them to attention, numbered them off smartly, and presented two Companies for my instruction.
gloss: To enumerate or list, especially while assigning numbers to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I numbered them off on my fingers as I stated them. “First, I would redeem a small amount of my investment assets to pay off the cleared lot and come up with a down payment for the ten acres. Second, I would seek to obtain an open[…]
gloss: To classify or include (in a group of things)
pos: verb
tags: transitive
usually
examples: Alexander the Great's army numbered an elite cavalry among its ranks.
We fools counted their life madness, and their end to be without honour: how are they numbered among the children of God, and their lot is among the Saints!
They number among them men of intelligence and education, fitted in almost every respect to share in the responsibilities of government as well as receive a part of its benefits.
We certainly endorse the essential purpose of S. 708 — namely, that an applicant should not obtain a grant simply because it numbers among its stockholders a Member of Congress […]
Unite them to Your Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, and number them with Your chosen flock. That with us they may glorify Your all-honorable and majestic name: of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, now and ever and ever.
gloss: To be classified or included (in a certain group or category of things).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
usually
examples: Her horses number among the fastest in her country.
They number among our best people, particularly when we realise that they are models for what the rest of us might also achieve.
If they number among those who abuse their wives, they, just like abusing leaders, should stop.
Synonyms: number
Related words: monad
pair
duo
dyad
twosome
triad
threesome
foursome
fivesome
sixsome
sevensome
eightsome
dozen
baker’s dozen
score
mono-
di-
tri-
tetra-
penta-
hexa-
hepta-
octa-
nona-
deca-
hendeca-
undeca-
dodeca-
duodeca-
trideca-
tetradeca-
pentadeca-
hexadeca-
heptadeca-
octadeca-
enneadeca-
icosa-
chilia-
oligo-
poly-
uni-
bi-
quadri-
quin-
quinque-
sexa-
duad
tetrad
pentad
hexad
hebdomad
heptad
ogdoad
octad
ennead
nonad
decad
decade
hendecad
dodecad
duodecade
chiliad
twin
triplet
quadruplet
quintuplet
sextuplet
septuplet
octuplet
nonuplet
solo
duet
trio
quartet
quintet
sextet
septet
octet
nonet
decet
duodecet
unary
binary
ternary
quaternary
quartary
quinary
senary
septenary
octonary
novenary
nonary
denary
duodenary
vigenary
centenary
singular
dual
trial
quadral
once
twice
thrice
four times
five times
onefold
twofold
threefold
fourfold
fivefold
sixfold
sevenfold
eightfold
ninefold
tenfold
octal
decimal
duodecimal
tetradecimal
pentadecimal
vigesimal
base 24
base 32
hexavigesimal
sexagesimal
octogesimal
whole
half
primary
secondary
tertiary
single
double
triple
treble
quadruple
quintuple
sextuple
septuple
octuple
multiple
ℙ
ℕ
ℤ
ℚ
ℝ
ℂ
niladic
monadic
dyadic
triadic
tetradic
pentadic
hexadic
heptadic
octadic
nonadic
decadic
polyadic
dilogy
trilogy
tetralogy
pentalogy
hexalogy
heptalogy
octology
ennealogy
decalogy
polylogy
vicenarian
tricenarian
quadragenarian
quinquagenarian
sexagenarian
septuagenarian
octogenarian
nonagenarian
centenarian
monomerous
trimerous
tetramerous
pentamerous
hexamerous
heptamerous
octamerous
monogon
digon
trigon
tetragon
pentagon
hexagon
heptagon
octagon
nonagon
decagon
dodecagon
quindecagon
polygon
tetrahedron
pentahedron
hexahedron
heptahedron
octahedron
decahedron
dodecahedron
icosahedron
icosidodecahedron
polyhedron
Appendix:Numbers
Appendix:Roman numerals
grammatical numbers
Wiktionary’s Appendix of numbers
Derived words: abstract analytic number theory
additive number theory
age ain't nothing but a number
age is just a number
algebraic number field
algebraic number theory
algorithmic number theory
analytic number theory
A number 1
a number of
any number of
by-the-numbers
by the numbers
call someone's number
cloud number nine
color by number
color by numbers
computational number theory
copy number polymorphism
copy-number variant
copy number variation
crunch numbers
cushy number
denumber
do a number on
do number one
do numbers
do number two
extended real number system
false number 9
file off the serial numbers
fixed-point number
genuine number eleven
geometry of numbers
get someone's number
have one's number on it
have someone's number
interesting number paradox
law of large numbers
look for number one
look out for number one
lose the number of one's mess
make one's number
make up the numbers
misnumber
natural numbers object
number 10
number 2
number 2 pencil
numberable
number close
number coding
number-cruncher
number cruncher
number-crunching
number crunching
number density
number eight
number eleven
numberer
number field
number five
number four
numberful
number game
number girl
numberhood
numberish
numberless
numberlike
number line
numberness
number nine
number one
Number One
number one with a bullet
numberous
number pad
number plate
number prefix
number ray
number sentence
number seven
numbers game
number sign
number six
numbers juggling
numbers-matching
numbersome
numbers racket
numbers station
number system
numbertaker
number ten
number-theoretic
number-theoretical
number-theoretically
number-theoretic function
number theoretician
number theorist
number theory
number three
number two
Numberwang
numberwang
numberwork
numbery
numerical
one's number is up
outnumber
overnumber
paint-by-numbers
paint by numbers
painting by numbers
plate number coil
play number two
prenumber
prime number theorem
pseudo-random number generator
pseudorandom number generator
public enemy number one
random number generator
random number god
real number line
real number system
renumber
rookie numbers
safety in numbers
single-number
someone's number is up
take a number
there is safety in numbers
there is strength in numbers
times without number
transcendental number theory
turn a number of shades of red
what is your phone number
what number
what's your phone number
whole numbers
without number
English terms starting with
Translations:
lang: Southern Altai
word: тоо
roman: too
lang: Arabic
word: رَقْم
roman: raqm
lang: Arabic
word: نمره
roman: nímra
lang: Arabic
word: نمرة
roman: nímra
lang: Arabic
word: نمرة
roman: namra
lang: Arabic
word: رقم
roman: raqm
lang: Armenian
word: համար
roman: hamar
lang: Asturian
word: númberu
lang: Azerbaijani
word: nömrə
lang: Basque
word: zenbaki
lang: Belarusian
word: ну́мар
roman: númar
lang: Bengali
word: নম্বর
roman: nombor
lang: Breton
word: niverenn
lang: Bulgarian
word: но́мер
roman: nómer
lang: Catalan
word: número
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 號碼 /号码
roman: hou⁶ maa⁵
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 號 /号
roman: hou⁶
lang: Chinese
word: хо
roman: ho
lang: Chinese
word: 號碼 /号码
roman: hō-bé / hō-bée / hō-má
lang: Chinese
word: 號 /号
roman: hō / hō͘ / kō
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 號碼 /号码
roman: hàomǎ
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 號 /号
roman: hào
lang: Czech
word: číslo
lang: Dutch
word: nummer
lang: Esperanto
word: numero
lang: Finnish
word: numero
lang: French
word: numéro
lang: Georgian
word: ნომერი
roman: nomeri
lang: German
word: Nummer
lang: Greek
word: αριθμός
roman: arithmós
lang: Greek
word: νούμερο
roman: noúmero
lang: Haitian Creole
word: nimewo
lang: Hindi
word: नंबर
roman: nambar
lang: Hungarian
word: -odik
lang: Hungarian
word: -adik
lang: Hungarian
word: -edik
lang: Hungarian
word: -ödik
lang: Hungarian
word: -os
lang: Hungarian
word: -as
lang: Hungarian
word: -es
lang: Hungarian
word: -ös
lang: Hungarian
word: sorszám
lang: Hungarian
word: jelzés
lang: Hungarian
word: számjelzés
lang: Icelandic
word: númer
lang: Ido
word: numero
lang: Ingrian
word: numeri
lang: Italian
word: numero
lang: Japanese
word: 番
roman: ban
lang: Kazakh
word: нөмір
roman: nömır
lang: Korean
word: 번호
roman: beonho
lang: Korean
word: 번
roman: beon
lang: Kyrgyz
word: номер
roman: nomer
lang: Lao
word: ເລກ
roman: lēk
lang: Latin
word: numero
lang: Latvian
word: numurs
lang: Macedonian
word: број
roman: broj
lang: Malay
word: nombor
lang: Maltese
word: numru
lang: Mongolian
word: дугаар
roman: dugaar
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: nummer
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: nummer
lang: Dari
word: شُمَارَه
roman: šumāra
lang: Iranian Persian
word: شُمارِه
roman: šomâre
lang: Iranian Persian
word: نُمْرِه
roman: nomre
lang: Polish
word: numer
lang: Portuguese
word: número
lang: Romanian
word: număr
lang: Russian
word: но́мер
roman: nómer
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: àireamh
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: бро̑ј
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: brȏj
lang: Slovak
word: číslo
lang: Slovene
word: številko
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: cysło
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: numer
lang: Spanish
word: número
lang: Swahili
word: nambari
lang: Swedish
word: nummer
lang: Tajik
word: шумора
roman: šumora
lang: Tajik
word: рақам
roman: raqam
lang: Telugu
word: శ్రేణి
roman: śrēṇi
lang: Turkish
word: sayı
lang: Turkmen
word: nomer
lang: Ukrainian
word: но́мер
roman: nómer
lang: Urdu
word: نَمْبَر
roman: nambar
lang: Uyghur
word: نومۇر
roman: nomur
lang: Uzbek
word: nomer
lang: Uzbek
word: yorliq
lang: Vietnamese
word: số
lang: Welsh
word: rhif
lang: Xibe
word: ᡥᠣᠣ
roman: hoo
lang: Yiddish
word: נומער
roman: numer
lang: Armenian
word: թիվ
roman: tʻiv
lang: Armenian
word: քանակ
roman: kʻanak
lang: Belarusian
word: чысло́
roman: čysló
lang: Belarusian
word: ко́лькасць
roman: kólʹkascʹ
lang: Bulgarian
word: коли́чество
roman: kolíčestvo
lang: Bulgarian
word: брой
roman: broj
lang: Catalan
word: nombre
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 多少
roman: duōshǎo
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 數碼 /数码
roman: shùmǎ
lang: Ngazidja Comorian
word: hisaɓu
lang: Czech
word: množství
lang: Dutch
word: aantal
lang: Egyptian
word: T:n-nw-w-Y1:Z2
roman: ṯnw
lang: Esperanto
word: nombro
lang: Finnish
word: lukumäärä
lang: Finnish
word: määrä
lang: French
word: nombre
lang: Georgian
word: რაოდენობა
roman: raodenoba
lang: German
word: Anzahl
lang: German
word: Zahl
lang: Greek
word: αριθμός
roman: arithmós
lang: Greek
word: ποσότητα
roman: posótita
lang: Hebrew
word: כַּמּוּת
roman: kamút
lang: Hungarian
word: szám
lang: Hungarian
word: létszám
lang: Icelandic
word: fjöldi
lang: Italian
word: numero
lang: Italian
word: quantità
lang: Japanese
word: 多寡
roman: taka
lang: Japanese
word: 数
roman: kazu
lang: Korean
word: 숫자
roman: sutja
lang: Korean
word: 수량
roman: suryang
lang: Central Kurdish
word: ژِمارە
roman: jimare
lang: Ladino
word: número
lang: Latvian
word: skaits
lang: Macedonian
word: број
roman: broj
lang: Macedonian
word: количество
roman: količestvo
lang: Macedonian
word: количина
roman: količina
lang: Māori
word: tokopae
lang: Nahuatl
word: tlapoalli
lang: Iranian Persian
word: تِعْداد
roman: te'dâd
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Zol
lang: Polish
word: liczba
lang: Polish
word: ilość
lang: Portuguese
word: quantidade
lang: Portuguese
word: número
lang: Romanian
word: cantitate
lang: Romanian
word: număr
lang: Russian
word: число́
roman: čisló
lang: Russian
word: коли́чество
roman: kolíčestvo
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: àireamh
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: мно̀штво
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: mnòštvo
lang: Slovak
word: množstvo
lang: Spanish
word: número
lang: Spanish
word: cantidad
lang: Spanish
word: serie
lang: Swedish
word: antal
lang: Swedish
word: numerär
lang: Tagalog
word: bilang
lang: Tajik
word: теъдод
roman: te'dod
lang: Telugu
word: మొత్తము
roman: mottamu
lang: Turkish
word: sayı
lang: Ukrainian
word: число́
roman: čysló
lang: Ukrainian
word: кі́лькість
roman: kílʹkistʹ
lang: Urdu
word: تِعْداد
roman: ti'dād
lang: Welsh
word: nifer
lang: ǃXóõ
word: ǃɢa̰n-ǃɢa̰n
lang: ǃXóõ
word: dzâa