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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.
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: nŭmʹbər, IPA(key): /ˈnʌmbə/
- (General American) enPR: nŭmʹbər, IPA(key): /ˈnʌmbɚ/
- Rhymes: -ʌmbə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: num‧ber
number (plural numbers)
- (countable) An abstract entity used to describe quantity.
Zero, one, −1, 2.5, and pi are all numbers. - (countable) A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer.
Synonyms: scalar, (obsolete) rime
The number 8 is usually made with a single stroke. - (countable, mathematics) An element of one of several sets: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, and sometimes extensions such as hypercomplex numbers, etc.
The equation e i π + 1 = 0 {\displaystyle e^{i\pi }+1=0} includes the most important numbers: 1, 0, π {\displaystyle \pi } , i {\displaystyle i} , and e {\displaystyle e} . - (Followed by a numeral; used attributively) 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.
Horse number 5 won the race. - Quantity.
- 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
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. - 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
Number itself importeth not much in armies where the people are of weak courage.
Any number of people can be reading from a given repository at a time.
- 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
- A sequence of digits and letters used to register people, automobiles, and various other items.
Her passport number is C01X864TN. - (countable, informal) A telephone number.
Let's give her a call. Do you have her number handy?
I'm definitely interested. Here's my number. Call me back anytime.- 2001, E. Forrest Hein, The Ruach Project,, Xulon Press, page 86:
“[...] 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?” - 2007, Lindsey Nicole Isham, No Sex in the City: One Virgin's Confessions on Love, Lust, Dating, and Waiting, Kregel Publications, page 111:
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. - 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
Marsha's work number is 555-8986.
- 2001, E. Forrest Hein, The Ruach Project,, Xulon Press, page 86:
- (grammar) Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection.
Adjectives and nouns should agree in gender, number, and case. - (now rare, in the plural) Poetic metres; verses, rhymes.
- a. 1631 (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “The Triple Foole”, in Poems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, […], published 1633, →OCLC, page 204:
Griefe brought to numbers cannot be ſo fierce, / For, he tames it, that fetters it in verſe. - 1735 January 13 (Gregorian calendar; indicated as 1734), [Alexander] Pope, An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot, London: […] J[ohn] Wright for Lawton Gilliver […], →OCLC, page 7, lines 124–125:
As yet a Child, nor yet a Fool to Fame, / I liſp'd in Numbers, for the Numbers came.
- a. 1631 (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “The Triple Foole”, in Poems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, […], published 1633, →OCLC, page 204:
- (countable) A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show.
For his second number, he sang "The Moon Shines Bright". - (singular only, formal) A group of people.
one of our number ― one of us
- 2020 August 22, Robert McCrum, “For ever and a day: why we turn to Shakespeare at times of crisis”, in The Observer[1]:
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.
- 1968, Janet Burroway, The dancer from the dance: a novel,, Little, Brown, page 40:
I laughed. "Don't doubt that. She's a saucy little number." - 1988, Erica Jong, Serenissima,, Dell, page 214:
"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 [...]" - 2005, Denise A. Agnew, Kate Hill, Arianna Hart, By Honor Bound,, Ellora's Cave Publishing, page 207:
He had to focus on the mission, staying alive and getting out, not on the sexy number rubbing up against him.
- 2007, Cesca Martin, Agony Angel: So You Think You've Got Problems...,, Troubador Publishing Ltd, page 134:
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. - 2007, Lorelei James, Running with the Devil, Samhain Publishing, Ltd, page 46:
"I doubt the sexy number you wore earlier tonight fell from the sky."
- (slang, chiefly US) A marijuana cigarette, or joint; also, a quantity of marijuana bought from a dealer.
- 2005, K'wan, Hoodlum, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 1:
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. - 2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage, published 2010, page 12:
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 […]
- (dated) An issue of a periodical publication.
the latest number of a magazine - A large amount, in contrast to a smaller amount; numerical preponderance.
- 1980 May 10, Al King, “Braves travel to New England with reputation”, in The Indiana Gazette:
Despite last week's woes, the Braves still sport numbers that would make Christie Brinkley blush.
- An activity; assignment; job, as in cushy number.
(grammar: Hyponyms of "number"):
(mathematics: Hyponyms of "number"):
See also Thesaurus:number
Tok Pisin: namba
→ Brunei Malay: numbur
→ Burmese: နံပါတ် (nampat)
→ Japanese: ナンバー (nanbā)
→ Kikuyu: namba
→ Malay: nombor
- Indonesian: nomor
→ Maori: nama
→ Navajo: námboo
→ Papiamentu: number
→ Palauan: lambang
→ Yoruba: nọ́ḿbà
abstract entity used to describe quantity
- Abkhaz: ахыҧхьаӡара (axəpxʲadzara)
- Afrikaans: aantal (af), getal (af)
- Albanian: sasi (sq) f, numër (sq) m,
- Amharic: ቁጥር (ḳuṭr)
- Apache:
Western Apache: ndee biyáti' - Arabic: عَدَد (ar) m (ʕadad)
Egyptian Arabic: نمرة f (nimra)
Hijazi Arabic: رقِم m (ragim), رقَم m (ragam)
Moroccan Arabic: رقم (raqm), نمرة f (namra) - Aragonese: lumero m
- Armenian: թիվ (hy) (tʻiv)
Old Armenian: թիւ (tʻiw) - Assamese: সংখ্যা (xoṅkhya)
- Asturian: númberu (ast) m
- Azerbaijani: say (az), rəqəm (az), ədəd (az), nömrə (az), şümarə (South Azerbaijani)
- Bashkir: һан (han)
- Basque: zenbaki (eu)
- Belarusian: лік m (lik)
- Bengali: সংখ্যা (bn) (śoṅkha), নম্বর (bn) (nombor), অঙ্ক (bn) (oṅko)
- Bislama: namba
- Breton: niver (br) m
- Brunei Malay: numbur
- Bulgarian: число́ (bg) n (čisló)
- Burmese: နံပါတ် (my) (nampat), ဂဏန်း (my) (ga.nan:)
- Buryat: тоо (too)
- Carpathian Rusyn: чісло́ n (čisló)
- Catalan: nombre (ca)
- Cebuano: numero, gidaghanon
- Central Dusun: numbul
- Chinese:
Dungan: фур (fur) (數兒 / 数儿), фурму (furmu) (數兒目 / 数儿目)
Mandarin: 數 / 数 (zh) (shù), 數目 / 数目 (zh) (shùmù), 數字 / 数字 (zh) (shùzì) - Cornish: niver
- Czech: číslo (cs) n
- Danish: tal (da) n
- Dutch: aantal (nl) n, hoeveelheid (nl) f
- Elfdalian: tal n
- Esperanto: nombro (eo)
- Estonian: arv (et)
- Farefare: nimõrɔ
- Finnish: luku (fi)
- French: nombre (fr) m, numéro (fr) m
Old French: nombre - Friulian: numar m
- Fula:
Adlam: 𞤀𞤣𞤢𞤣𞤵, 𞤫𞤥𞥆𞤦𞤫𞤪𞤫
Latin: adadu, emmbere - Galician: número (gl) m
- Georgian: რიცხვი (ricxvi)
- German: Zahl (de) f
- Gothic: 𐍂𐌰𐌸𐌾𐍉 f (raþjō)
- Greek: αριθμός (el) m (arithmós), πλήθος (el) n (plíthos)
- Greenlandic: kisitsit
- Gujarati: નંબર n (nambar)
- Haitian Creole: nonm
- Hawaiian: helu
- Hebrew: מִסְפָּר (he) m (mispár)
- Hiligaynon: isip
- Hindi: संख्या (hi) f (saṅkhyā), अंक (hi) m (aṅk)
- Hungarian: szám (hu)
- Icelandic: tala (is) f
- Ida'an: lumbur
- Ido: nombro (io)
- Inari Sami: nummeer
- Indonesian: angka (id), bilangan (id)
- Ingrian: cisla
- Interlingua: numero (ia)
- Irish: uimhir (ga) f
- Italian: numero (it) m
- Japanese: 数 (ja) (かず, kazu), 数字 (ja) (すうじ, sūji)
- Javanese: wilangan
- Karachay-Balkar: (please verify) сан (san)
- Karaim: сан
- Kazakh: сан (san), нөмір (nömır)
- Khakas: сан (san)
- Khmer: លេខ (km) (leek)
- Korean: 숫자(數字) (ko) (sutja), 수(數) (ko) (su)
- Krymchak: сан
- Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ژِمارە (ckb) (jimare)
Northern Kurdish: hejmar (ku) f, jimare (ku) f - Kyrgyz: сан (ky) (san)
- Ladin: numer m
- Ladino: número
- Lao: ເລກ (lēk)
- Latin: numerus (la) m
- Latvian: skaitlis (lv) m
- Lithuanian: skaičius (lt)
- Livonian: lug
- Luxembourgish: Zuel (lb) f
- Macedonian: број (mk) m (broj)
- Malay: nombor (ms), angka (ms), bilangan (ms)
- Malayalam: സംഖ്യ (ml) (saṅkhya)
- Maltese: numru (mt)
- Manchu: ᡨᠣᠨ (ton)
- Manx: earroo
- Mauritian Creole: nimero
- Mirandese: númaro m
- Mongolian:
Cyrillic: тоо (mn) (too)
Mongolian: ᠲᠣᠭᠠ (tog-a) - Navajo: námboo, ánéeltʼeʼ, ákwíígíí, nóomba
- Nepali: संख्या f (saṅkhyā), अंक m (aṅka)
- Nogai: сан (san)
- Northern Altai: тоо (too), сан (san)
- Northern Sami: lohku, tálla
- Norwegian:
Bokmål: antall (no) n, tall (no) n
Nynorsk: tal (no) n - Occitan: nombre (oc) m
- Odia: ସଂଖ୍ୟା (or) (saṅkhyā)
- Old English: rīm n, tæl n
- Old Frisian: rīm
- Old High German: rīm
- Old Javanese: wilaṅ
- Ottoman Turkish: سایی (sayı), عدد (aded)
- Pali: gaṇanā
- Papiamentu: number
- Pashto: رقم (ps) m (raqam), عدد (ps) m ('adad), نمره (ps) f (nomra)
- Persian:
Dari: شُمَارَه (šumāra), رَقَم (raqam), عَدَد (adad)
Iranian Persian: شُمارِه (šomâre), رَقَم (rağam), عَدَد (adad), نُمْرِه (nomre) - Piedmontese: nùmer m
- Polish: liczba (pl) f
- Portuguese: número (pt) m
- Quechua: yupay
- Rabha: জায়
- Romanian: număr (ro) n
- Romansch: numer m, nomer
- Russian: число́ (ru) n (čisló)
- Sanskrit: संख्या (sa) f (saṃkhyā)
- Sardinian: númeru m, númunu m
- Scottish Gaelic: àireamh f
- Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бро̑ј m, чи́сло n
Roman: brȏj (sh) m, číslo (sh) n - Seychellois Creole: nimero
- Shor: сан
- Sicilian: nummuru (scn), nùmmuru (scn) m
- Sinhalese: ගණන (gaṇana), අංක (aṁka)
- Slovak: číslo (sk) n
- Slovene: število (sl) n
- Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: cysło n, numer m
Upper Sorbian: ličba f, čisło n - Southern Altai: сагыш (sagïš)
- Spanish: número (es) m, guarismo (es) m
- Sundanese: ᮝᮤᮜᮍᮔ᮪ (wilangan)
- Swahili: nambari (sw), namba
- Swedish: tal (sv) n
- Tagalog: bilang (tl)
- Tajik: рақам (tg) (raqam), адад (tg) (adad), шумора (tg) (šumora)
- Tamil: எண் (ta) (eṇ)
- Tarantino: numere m
- Tatar: сан (tt) (san)
- Tausug: taud, umbul
- Telugu: సంఖ్య (te) (saṅkhya)
- Thai: จำนวน (th) (jam-nuuan), เลข (th) (lêek)
- Tibetan: གྲངས་ཀ (grangs ka)
- Tigrinya: ቍጽሪ (ḳʷəṣri)
- Tofa: сан
- Turkish: sayı (tr), rakam (tr), adet (tr)
- Turkmen: san (tk)
- Tuvan: сан (san)
- Ukrainian: число́ (uk) n (čysló)
- Urdu: عَدَد f ('adad), تَعْداد f (ta'dād)
- Uyghur: رەقەم (reqem), سان (san)
- Uzbek: raqam (uz), son (uz)
- Venetan: nùmaro (vec) m
- Vietnamese: số (vi) (數 (vi))
- Volapük: numat (vo)
- Welsh: rhif (cy) m
- Yakan: umbul
- Yiddish: נומער m (numer), צאָל f (tsol)
- Yoruba: nọ́ḿbà, òǹkà
- Yucatec Maya: xook, xookol
- Zazaki: amor (diq), amar (diq), reqem (diq), ambar (diq)
- Zhuang: cihsoq, susw, soqcih, soqmoeg
numeral
- Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: عَدَد (ar) m (ʕadad), رَقْم (ar) m (raqm)
Moroccan Arabic: رقم (raqm) - Armenian: թիվ (hy) (tʻiv), թվանշան (hy) (tʻvanšan)
- Belarusian: лічэ́бнік m (ličébnik), лі́чба f (líčba)
- Bulgarian: числи́телно и́ме n (čislítelno íme), числи́телно (bg) n (čislítelno)
- Catalan: xifra (ca) f, número (ca) m
- Chinese:
Cantonese: 數詞 / 数词 (sou3 ci4), 數 / 数, 數字 / 数字 (sou3 zi6)
Mandarin: 數詞 / 数词 (zh) (shùcí), 數 / 数 (zh) (shù), 數字 / 数字 (zh) (shùzì) - Czech: číslovka (cs) f, číslice (cs) f
- Danish: tal (da) n
- Dutch: nummer (nl) n, cijfer (nl) n
- Esperanto: cifero
- Finnish: numero (fi) (number); lukusana (fi) (word)
- French: chiffre (fr) m
- Georgian: ციფრი (cipri)
- German: Nummer (de), Ziffer (de) f
- Greek: αριθμός (el) m (arithmós), ψηφίο (el) n (psifío), νούμερο (el) n (noúmero)
- Hawaiian: hua helu
- Hebrew: סִפְרָה (he) f (sifrá)
- Hindi: संख्या (hi) f (saṅkhyā)
- Hungarian: szám (hu), számjegy (hu)
- Icelandic: tölustafur (is) m
- Indonesian: nomor (id)
- Ingrian: numeri, cisla
- Irish: figiúr m
- Italian: numero (it) m, cifra (it) f
- Japanese: 数字 (ja) (すうじ, sūji), 数詞 (ja) (すうし, sūshi), 数 (ja) (かず, kazu)
- Khmer: លេខ (km) (leek)
- Korean: 숫자(數字) (ko) (sutja), 수사(數詞) (ko) (susa)
- Lao: ເລກ (lēk), ຕົວເລກ (tūa lēk)
- Latvian: numurs m
- Laz: ციფრი (ʒipri)
- Lithuanian: numeris (lt) m
- Livonian: nummõrz
- Low German:
German Low German: Tall (nds) f (Northern Low German), Tahl (nds) f (Northern Low German) - Macedonian: бро́јка f (brójka), ци́фра f (cífra)
- Malayalam: സംഖ്യ (ml) (saṅkhya)
- Manchu: ᡨᠣᠨ (ton)
- Navajo: námboo
- Norwegian:
Bokmål: tall (no) n
Nynorsk: tal (no) n - Occitan: chifra (oc) f
- Odia: ସଂଖ୍ୟା (or) (saṅkhyā)
- Persian:
Classical Persian: عَدَد (adad), رَقَم (raqam)
Iranian Persian: عَدَد (adad), رَقَم (rağam) - Polish: cyfra (pl) f, liczebnik (pl) m
- Portuguese: número (pt) m, numeral (pt) m
- Romanian: număr (ro) n
- Russian: число́ (ru) n (čisló), ци́фра (ru) f (cífra), (part of speech) числи́тельное (ru) n (čislítelʹnoje), и́мя числи́тельное (ru) n (ímja čislítelʹnoje)
- Scottish Gaelic: àireamh f
- Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: brȏj (sh) m
Roman: brȏj (sh) m - Slovak: číslovka (sk) f
- Slovene: števnik (sl) m
- Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: cysło n, numer m - Spanish: número (es), guarismo (es) m
- Swahili: nambari (sw)
- Swedish: tal (sv)
- Tagalog: bilang (tl)
- Tashelhit: nnmra m
- Telugu: సంఖ్య (te) (saṅkhya)
- Thai: เลข (th) (lêek), ตัวเลข (th) (dtuua-lêek)
- Turkish: numara (tr)
- Ukrainian: числі́вник (uk) m (čyslívnyk), ци́фра (uk) f (cýfra)
- Urdu: عَدَد m ('adad), رَقَم f (raqam), نَمْبَر m (nambar)
- Vietnamese: số (vi) (數 (vi))
- Welsh: rhif (cy) m
- Yiddish: נומער m (numer), מספּר m (misper)
mathematics: number
- Arabic: عَدَد (ar) m (ʕadad)
- Armenian: թիվ (hy) (tʻiv)
- Belarusian: лі́чба f (líčba)
- Bengali: সংখ্যা (bn) (śoṅkha)
- Bulgarian: число́ (bg) n (čisló)
- Catalan: nombre (ca) m
- Chinese:
Mandarin: 數 / 数 (zh) - Czech: číslo (cs) n
- Danish: tal (da) n
- Dutch: getal (nl) n
- Esperanto: nombro (eo)
- Finnish: luku (fi)
- French: nombre (fr) m
- Georgian: რიცხვი (ricxvi)
- German: Zahl (de) f
- Greek: αριθμός (el) m (arithmós)
- Hebrew: מִסְפָּר (he) m (mispár)
- Hindi: संख्या (hi) f (saṅkhyā)
- Hungarian: szám (hu)
- Icelandic: tala (is) f
- Italian: numero (it) m
- Japanese: 数 (ja) (すう, sū)
- Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ژِمارە (ckb) (jimare) - Latin: numerus (la) m
- Latvian: skaitlis (lv) m
- Luxembourgish: Zuel (lb) f
- Macedonian: број (mk) m (broj)
- Maltese: numru (mt)
- Manchu: ᡨᠣᠨ (ton)
- Mongolian:
Cyrillic: тоо (mn) (too) - Nahuatl: tlapoalli
- Navajo: ánéeltʼeʼ
- Norwegian:
Bokmål: tall (no) n
Nynorsk: tal (no) n - Persian:
Dari: عَدَد (adad), رَقَم (raqam)
Iranian Persian: عَدَد (adad), رَقَم (rağam) - Plautdietsch: Zol f
- Polish: liczba (pl) f
- Portuguese: número (pt) m
- Romanian: număr (ro) n
- Russian: число́ (ru) n (čisló)
- Scottish Gaelic: àireamh f
- Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бро̑ј m
Roman: brȏj (sh) m - Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: cysło n, numer m - Spanish: número (es) m
- Swahili: nambari (sw), namba
- Swedish: heltal (sv) n
- Tagalog: bilang (tl)
- Tajik: адад (tg) (adad)
- Telugu: సంఖ్య (te) (saṅkhya)
- Turkish: sayı (tr)
- Ukrainian: число́ (uk) n (čysló)
- Welsh: rhif (cy) m
used to show the rank of something in a list or sequence
- Arabic: رَقْم (ar) m (raqm)
Egyptian Arabic: نمره f (nímra), نمرة f (nímra)
Moroccan Arabic: نمرة (namra), رقم (raqm) - Armenian: համար (hy) (hamar)
- Asturian: númberu (ast) m
- Azerbaijani: nömrə (az)
- Basque: zenbaki (eu)
- Belarusian: ну́мар m (númar)
- Bengali: নম্বর (bn) (nombor)
- Breton: niverenn (br) f
- Bulgarian: но́мер (bg) m (nómer)
- Catalan: número (ca) m
- Chinese:
Cantonese: 號碼 / 号码 (hou6 maa5), 號 / 号 (yue) (hou6)
Dungan: хо (ho)
Hokkien: 號碼 / 号码 (zh-min-nan) (hō-bé / hō-bée / hō-má), 號 / 号 (zh-min-nan) (hō / hō͘ / kō)
Mandarin: 號碼 / 号码 (zh) (hàomǎ), 號 / 号 (zh) (hào) - Czech: číslo (cs) n
- Dutch: nummer (nl) f
- Esperanto: numero (eo)
- Finnish: numero (fi)
- French: numéro (fr) m
- Georgian: ნომერი (nomeri)
- German: Nummer (de) f
- Greek: αριθμός (el) m (arithmós), νούμερο (el) n (noúmero)
- Haitian Creole: nimewo
- Hindi: नंबर (hi) m (nambar)
- Hungarian: -odik (hu), -adik (hu), -edik (hu), -ödik (hu), -os (hu), -as (hu), -es (hu), -ös (hu), sorszám (hu), jelzés (hu), számjelzés (hu)
- Icelandic: númer (is) f
- Ido: numero (io)
- Ingrian: numeri
- Italian: numero (it) m
- Japanese: 番 (ja) (ばん, ban) (suffix)
- Kazakh: нөмір (nömır)
- Korean: 번호(番號) (ko) (beonho), 번(番) (ko) (beon)
- Kyrgyz: номер (nomer)
- Lao: ເລກ (lēk)
- Latin: numero (la)
- Latvian: numurs m
- Macedonian: број (mk) m (broj)
- Malay: nombor (ms)
- Maltese: numru (mt)
- Mongolian:
Cyrillic: дугаар (mn) (dugaar) - Norwegian:
Bokmål: nummer (no) n
Nynorsk: nummer n - Persian:
Dari: شُمَارَه (šumāra)
Iranian Persian: شُمارِه (šomâre), نُمْرِه (nomre) - Polish: numer (pl) m inan
- Portuguese: número (pt) m
- Romanian: număr (ro) n
- Russian: но́мер (ru) m (nómer)
- Scottish Gaelic: àireamh f
- Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бро̑ј m
Roman: brȏj (sh) m - Slovak: číslo (sk) n
- Slovene: številko n
- Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: cysło n, numer m - Southern Altai: тоо (too)
- Spanish: número (es) m
- Swahili: nambari (sw)
- Swedish: nummer (sv) n
- Tajik: шумора (tg) (šumora), рақам (tg) (raqam)
- Telugu: శ్రేణి (te) (śrēṇi)
- Turkish: sayı (tr)
- Turkmen: nomer
- Ukrainian: но́мер (uk) m (nómer)
- Urdu: نَمْبَر m (nambar)
- Uyghur: نومۇر (nomur)
- Uzbek: nomer (uz), yorliq (uz)
- Vietnamese: số (vi) (數 (vi))
- Welsh: rhif (cy) m
- Xibe: ᡥᠣᠣ (hoo)
- Yiddish: נומער m (numer)
quantity
- Armenian: թիվ (hy) (tʻiv), քանակ (hy) (kʻanak)
- Belarusian: чысло́ n (čysló), ко́лькасць (be) f (kólʹkascʹ)
- Bulgarian: коли́чество (bg) n (kolíčestvo)
- Catalan: nombre (ca) m
- Chinese:
Mandarin: 多少 (zh) (duōshǎo), 數碼 / 数码 (zh) (shùmǎ) - Czech: množství (cs) n
- Dutch: aantal (nl) n
- Egyptian: (ṯnw)
- Esperanto: nombro (eo)
- Finnish: lukumäärä (fi), määrä (fi)
- French: nombre (fr) m
- Georgian: რაოდენობა (raodenoba)
- German: Anzahl (de) f, Zahl (de) f
- Greek: αριθμός (el) m (arithmós), ποσότητα (el) f (posótita)
- Hebrew: כַּמּוּת (he) f (kamút)
- Hungarian: szám (hu), létszám (hu)
- Icelandic: fjöldi (is) m
- Italian: numero (it) m, quantità (it) f
- Japanese: 多寡 (ja) (たか, taka), 数 (ja) (かず, kazu)
- Korean: 숫자 (ko) (sutja), 수량(數量) (ko) (suryang)
- Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ژِمارە (ckb) (jimare) - Ladino: número
- Latvian: skaits (lv) m
- Macedonian: број (mk) m (broj), количество n (količestvo), количина f (količina)
- Maori: tokopae (of people)
- Nahuatl: tlapoalli
- Ngazidja Comorian: hisaɓu class 9/10
- Persian:
Iranian Persian: تِعْداد (te'dâd) - Plautdietsch: Zol f
- Polish: liczba (pl) f, ilość (pl) f
- Portuguese: quantidade (pt) f, número (pt) m
- Romanian: cantitate (ro) f, număr (ro) n
- Russian: число́ (ru) n (čisló), коли́чество (ru) n (kolíčestvo)
- Scottish Gaelic: àireamh f
- Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: мно̀штво n
Roman: mnòštvo (sh) n - Slovak: množstvo n
- Spanish: número (es) m, cantidad (es) f, serie (es) f
- Swedish: antal (sv) n, numerär (sv) c
- Tagalog: bilang (tl)
- Tajik: теъдод (teʾdod)
- Telugu: మొత్తము (te) (mottamu)
- Turkish: sayı (tr)
- Ukrainian: число́ (uk) n (čysló), кі́лькість (uk) f (kílʹkistʹ)
- Urdu: تِعْداد f (ti'dād)
- Welsh: nifer (cy) m or f
- ǃXóõ: (of objects) ǃɢa̰n-ǃɢa̰n, (of people) dzâa
sequence of digits and letters used to register people, automobiles, etc.
- Arabic: رَقْم (ar) m (raqm)
- Armenian: համար (hy) (hamar)
- Azerbaijani: nömrə (az)
- Belarusian: ну́мар m (númar)
- Bengali: নম্বর (bn) (nombor)
- Bulgarian: но́мер (bg) m (nómer)
- Chinese:
Mandarin: 號碼 / 号码 (zh) (hàomǎ) - Czech: číslo (cs) n
- Esperanto: numero (eo)
- Finnish: numero (fi)
- Hindi: नंबर (hi) m (nambar)
- Hungarian: szám (hu), kód (hu), azonosító (hu), rendszám (hu)
- Japanese: 番号 (ja) (ばんごう, bangō)
- Korean: 번호(番號) (ko) (beonho)
- Mongolian:
Cyrillic: дугаар (mn) (dugaar) - Persian:
Iranian Persian: شُمارِه (šomâre), نُمْرِه (nomre) - Polish: numer (pl) m
- Portuguese: número (pt) m
- Russian: но́мер (ru) m (nómer)
- Slovak: číslo (sk) n
- Thai: หมายเลข (th) (mǎai-lêek), เบอร์ (th) (bəə) (colloquial)
- Ukrainian: но́мер (uk) m (nómer)
- Urdu: نَمْبَر m (nambar)
- Vietnamese: số (vi)
- Welsh: rhif (cy) m
informal: telephone number
- Arabic: رَقْم (ar) m (raqm)
- Belarusian: ну́мар m (númar)
- Bengali: নম্বর (bn) (nombor)
- Bulgarian: но́мер (bg) m (nómer)
- Czech: číslo (cs) n
- Finnish: numero (fi)
- French: numéro (fr) m
- German: Nummer (de) f
- Greek: αριθμός (el) m (arithmós)
- Hindi: नंबर (hi) m (nambar)
- Hungarian: szám (hu), telefonszám (hu)
- Japanese: 番号 (ja) (ばんごう, bangō)
- Korean: 번호(番號) (ko) (beonho)
- Macedonian: број (mk) m (broj)
- Mongolian:
Cyrillic: дугаар (mn) (dugaar) - Persian:
Iranian Persian: نُمْرِه (nomre), شُمارِه (šomâre) - Polish: numer (pl) m
- Portuguese: número (pt) m, telefone (pt) m
- Russian: но́мер (ru) m (nómer)
- Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бро̑ј m
Roman: brȏj (sh) m - Slovak: číslo (sk) n
- Slovene: številko n
- Thai: เบอร์ (th) (bəə)
- Ukrainian: но́мер (uk) m (nómer)
- Urdu: نَمْبَر m (nambar)
- Welsh: rhif (cy) m
grammar: state of being singular, dual or plural
- Armenian: թիվ (hy) (tʻiv)
- Belarusian: лі́чба f (líčba)
- Bengali: বচন (bn) (bocon)
- Catalan: nombre (ca) m
- Chinese:
Mandarin: 數 / 数 (zh) (shù) - Czech: číslo (cs) n
- Danish: tal (da) n
- Dutch: getal (nl) n
- Esperanto: nombro (eo)
- Faroese: tal n
- Finnish: luku (fi)
- French: nombre (fr) m
- German: Zahl (de) m, Numerus (de) m
- Greek: αριθμός (el) m (arithmós)
- Hungarian: szám (hu)
- Icelandic: tala (is) f
- Ingrian: luku
- Italian: numero (it) m
- Korean: 수(數) (ko) (su)
- Latin: numerus (la) m
- Macedonian: број (mk) m (broj)
- Manchu: ᡨᠣᠨ (ton)
- Mongolian:
Cyrillic: тоо (mn) (too) - Norwegian: numerus m
- Polish: liczba (pl) f
- Portuguese: número (pt) m
- Romanian: număr (ro) n
- Russian: число́ (ru) n (čisló)
- Scottish Gaelic: àireamh f
- Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бро̑ј m
Roman: brȏj (sh) m - Slovak: číslo (sk) n
- Spanish: número (es) m
- Swedish: numerus (sv) n
- Tagalog: kailanan
- Telugu: ఒంటరి (te) (oṇṭari), ఒకటిగా (te) (okaṭigā)
- Ukrainian: число́ (uk) n (čysló)
- Vietnamese: số (vi) (數 (vi))
- Votic: luku
- Welsh: rhif (cy) m
poetic metres; verses, rhymes.
- Finnish: säkeet pl
performance
- Belarusian: ну́мар m (númar)
- Catalan: número (ca) m
- Chinese:
Mandarin: 節目 / 节目 (zh) (jiémù) - Finnish: numero (fi), ohjelmanumero
- French: numéro (fr) m
- German: Nummer (de) f
- Greek: νούμερο (el) n (noúmero)
- Hungarian: szám (hu), zeneszám (hu)
- Italian: numero (it) m
- Polish: numer (pl) m
- Portuguese: número (pt) m
- Romanian: număr (ro) n
- Russian: но́мер (ru) m (nómer)
- Spanish: número (es) m
- Swedish: nummer (sv) n
- Ukrainian: но́мер (uk) m (nómer)
- Welsh: eitem (cy) f
informal: item of clothing, particularly a stylish one
slang: marijuana cigarette, or quantity of marijuana
number (third-person singular simple present numbers, present participle numbering, simple past and past participle numbered)
- (intransitive) To total or count; to amount to.
I don’t know how many books are in the library, but they must number in the thousands.- 1977, United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime, Federal Role in Criminal Justice and Crime Research, page 107:
Do they number in the hundreds, do they number in the thousands? Do they number in the tens of thousand?
- 1977, United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime, Federal Role in Criminal Justice and Crime Research, page 107:
- (transitive, passive voice) To limit to a certain number; to reckon (as by fate) to be few in number.
The old man knew that his days were numbered.- 1867, The Days of England Not “numbered”: Reply to Sir Archibald Alison, page 1:
THE DAYS OF ENGLAND NOT “NUMBERED.” REPLY TO SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON. - 2018 February 6, Dan Bouk, How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 209:
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?
- 1867, The Days of England Not “numbered”: Reply to Sir Archibald Alison, page 1:
- (transitive, literary or archaic) To count; to determine the quantity of.
The king ordered that all his subjects be numbered.
Who can number all the stars and who can count the desert sands?- 1610, The Bible: That Is, the Holy Scriptures Contained in the Olde and New Testament, Numbers 1:3:
From twentie yeare old and above, all that go forth to the warre in Iſrael, thou and Aaron ſhall number them, throughout their armies.
- 1610, The Bible: That Is, the Holy Scriptures Contained in the Olde and New Testament, Numbers 1:3:
- (transitive) To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).
Number the baskets so that we can find them easily.- 1964, Education U.S. Department of Health (and Welfare), United States. Public Health Service, Public Health Service Numbered Publications: Supplement:
“Public Health Service Numbered Publications – A Catalog, 1950-1962” and contains those numbered publications issued during the period 1963-64. - 1972, United States. National Archives and Records Service, Miscellaneous Numbered Records (the Manuscript File) in the War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, 1775-1790's, page 3:
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 […] - 2022 September 4, Francis Lynde, The City of Numbered Days, DigiCat:
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.
- 1964, Education U.S. Department of Health (and Welfare), United States. Public Health Service, Public Health Service Numbered Publications: Supplement:
- (transitive, with off) To call out and assign a series of numbers (usually to people), either for the sake of dividing into groups or for counting.
Shelley numbered off the group into two teams for the baseball game.- 1870, USA House of Representatives, House Documents, page 532:
I counted them and numbered them off, and I found about three hundred and seventy or three hundred and seventy-five. - 2014 March 3, Flora Johnston, War Classics: The Remarkable Memoir of Scottish Scholar Christina Keith on the Western Front, The History Press, →ISBN:
At my entrance, the Sergeant called them to attention, numbered them off smartly, and presented two Companies for my instruction.
- 1870, USA House of Representatives, House Documents, page 532:
- (transitive, with off) To enumerate or list, especially while assigning numbers to.
- 2019 January 11, Mark G. Turner, We Both Shall Row, My Love And I, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 367:
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 […]
- 2019 January 11, Mark G. Turner, We Both Shall Row, My Love And I, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 367:
- (transitive, usually with among) To classify or include (in a group of things)
Alexander the Great's army numbered an elite cavalry among its ranks.- 1839, Saint Cyprian (Bishop of Carthage.), The Treatises of S. Caecilius Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, and Martyr, page 298:
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! - 1879, United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Report, page 76:
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. - 1963, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Hearings, page 69:
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 […] - 2019 August 6, Fr. Joseph Irvin, The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom: Orthodox Service Books - Number 1, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:
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.
- 1839, Saint Cyprian (Bishop of Carthage.), The Treatises of S. Caecilius Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, and Martyr, page 298:
- (intransitive, usually with among) To be classified or included (in a certain group or category of things).
Her horses number among the fastest in her country.- 2010 September 3, Catherine Tizard, Cat Among the Pigeons: A Memoir, Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited, →ISBN:
They number among our best people, particularly when we realise that they are models for what the rest of us might also achieve. - 2020 October 1, Elizabeth Koepping, Spousal Violence Among World Christians: Silent Scandal, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
If they number among those who abuse their wives, they, just like abusing leaders, should stop.
- 2010 September 3, Catherine Tizard, Cat Among the Pigeons: A Memoir, Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited, →ISBN:
to total; to amount to
- Asturian: numberar
- Bulgarian: наброявам (bg) (nabrojavam)
- Catalan: comptar (ca), sumar (ca)
- Czech: počítat se (cs)
- Esperanto: nombri
- Finnish: olla (fi), nousta (fi)
- German: zählen (de)
- Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌸𐌾𐌰𐌽 (garaþjan)
- Hungarian: a száma/számuk (…van) (literally “its/their number is…”), kitesz (-t) (hu), rúg (-ra/-re) (hu)
- Irish: uimhrigh
- Italian: ammontare (it)
- Macedonian: избројува (izbrojuva), набројува (nabrojuva)
- Portuguese: amontar (pt)
- Russian: насчи́тывать (ru) (nasčítyvatʹ), исчисля́ться (ru) (isčisljátʹsja)
- Turkish: saymak (tr)
to be limited to a certain number
literary: to count — see also count
label with numbers; assign numbers to
- Arabic: رَقَّمَ (ar) (raqqama)
- Aramaic:
Syriac: ܡܢܐ (mna) - Asturian: numberar
- Breton: niverenniñ
- Bulgarian: номерирам (nomeriram)
- Catalan: numerar (ca)
- Czech: číslovat
- Dutch: nummeren (nl)
- Esperanto: numeri
- Finnish: numeroida (fi)
- French: numéroter (fr)
- German: nummerieren (de)
- Greek: αριθμώ (el) (arithmó)
- Hebrew: מספר (he) m (misper)
- Hungarian: megszámoz (hu)
- Icelandic: númera, tölusetja
- Interlingua: numerar
- Irish: uimhrigh
- Italian: numerare (it)
- Latin: numerare (la)
- Latvian: numurēt
- Macedonian: нумери́ра (numeríra)
- Polish: numerować (pl)
- Portuguese: numerar (pt)
- Romanian: numerota (ro)
- Russian: нумерова́ть (ru) (numerovátʹ)
- Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: cysłowaś impf, numerěrowaś impf - Spanish: numerar (es)
- Swedish: numrera (sv)
- Turkish: numaralamak (tr)
- Welsh: rhifo (cy)
to call out and assign numbers
to classify or include (among)
to be classified or included (among)
- (grammatical numbers): singular, dual, trial, quadral, paucal, plural, singulative
- Wiktionary’s Appendix of numbers
- number on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “number”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: nŭm'ə, IPA(key): /ˈnʌmə/
- (US) enPR: nŭm'ər, IPA(key): /ˈnʌmɚ/
Audio (US); “number” (adjective): (file) - Hyphenation: num‧ber
number
- comparative form of numb: more numb
From German Nummer. The added -b- is analogous to kamber and klamber.
number (genitive numbri, partitive numbrit)
- number (the symbol representing the number, its character)
- number plate, licence plate, license plate
Synonym: numbrimärk - number (periodical (numbered) single issue)
Synonym: ajalehenumber
Declension of number (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | number | numbrid |
accusative | nom. | |
gen. | numbri | |
genitive | numbrite | |
partitive | numbrit | numbreid |
illative | numbrisse | numbritessenumbreisse |
inessive | numbris | numbritesnumbreis |
elative | numbrist | numbritestnumbreist |
allative | numbrile | numbritelenumbreile |
adessive | numbril | numbritelnumbreil |
ablative | numbrilt | numbriteltnumbreilt |
translative | numbriks | numbriteksnumbreiks |
terminative | numbrini | numbriteni |
essive | numbrina | numbritena |
abessive | numbrita | numbriteta |
comitative | numbriga | numbritega |
- number in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
- “number”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
number
- Alternative form of nombre
An analogy of the Papiamentu word nòmber "name".
number