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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishnumber,nombre,numbre,noumbre, fromAnglo-Normannoumbre,Old Frenchnombre, fromLatinnumerus(“number”), ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*nem-(“to divide”). CompareSaterland FrisianNummer,Nuumer,West Frisiannûmer,Dutchnummer(“number”),GermanNummer(“number”),Danishnummer(“number”),Swedishnummer(“number”),Icelandicnúmer(“number”). Replaced Middle Englishȝetæl andrime, more attell,tale andrhyme.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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number (pluralnumbers)

  2. Quantity.
    Anynumber of people can be reading from a given repository at a time.
    There are, in addition to all the red socks, anumber that don’t suit me either.
    • 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, inThe Economist, volume407, number8839, page52:
      From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[…]  But viewed from high up in one of the growingnumber 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”, inThe Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret,→OCLC:
      Number itself importeth not much in armies where the people are of weak courage.
  3. (countable) Anabstractentity used todescribequantity.
    Zero, one, −1, 2.5, and pi are allnumbers.
  4. (countable) Anumeral: asymbol for anon-negativeinteger.
    Synonyms:scalar,(obsolete)rime
    Thenumber 8 is usually made with a single stroke.
    • 2025 May 16, Edward Helmore, “What does ‘8647’ really mean? Not what Trump’s supporters are saying”, inThe Guardian‎[1]:
      The former FBI director James Comey has said it did not occur to him that that thenumbers 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.
  5. (countable, mathematics) Anelement of one of severalsets:natural numbers,integers,rational numbers,real numbers,complex numbers, and sometimes extensions such ashypercomplex numbers, etc.
    The equationeiπ+1=0{\displaystyle e^{i\pi }+1=0} includes the most importantnumbers: 1, 0,π{\displaystyle \pi },i{\displaystyle i}, ande{\displaystyle e}.
  6. (Followed by anumeral; usedattributively) Indicating the position of something in a list or sequence. Abbreviations:No orNo.,no orno. (in each case, sometimes written with a superscript "o", like Nº or №). The symbol "#" is also used in this manner.
    Horsenumber 5 won the race.
  7. Asequence ofdigits andletters used to register people, automobiles, and various other items.
    Her passportnumber is C01X864TN.
    You can take thenumber 8 (bus) all the way to the airport.
  9. (countable, informal) Atelephone number.
    Let's give her a call. Do you have hernumber handy?
    I'm definitely interested. Here's mynumber. Call me back anytime.
    • 1974, “Rikki Don't Lose That Number”, performed bySteely Dan:
      Rikki, don't lose thatnumber / You don't wanna call nobody else / Send it off in a letter to yourself
    • 2001, E. Forrest Hein,The Ruach Project,, Xulon Press, page86:
      “[...] 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 mynumber?”
    • 2007, Lindsey Nicole Isham,No Sex in the City: One Virgin's Confessions on Love, Lust, Dating, and Waiting, Kregel Publications, page111:
      When I agreed to go surfing with him he said, “Great, can I have yournumber?” Well, I don’t give mynumber to guys I don’t know.
    • 2016,VOA Learning English (public domain)
      Marsha's worknumber is 555-8986.
  11. (grammar) Of a word or phrase, the state of beingsingular,dual orplural, shown byinflection.
    Adjectives and nouns should agree in gender,number, and case.
  12. (now rare, in theplural) Poetic metres;verses,rhymes.
    • a.1631 (date written),J[ohn] Donne, “The Triple Foole”, inPoems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] forIohn Marriot, […], published1633,→OCLC,page204:
      Griefe brought tonumbers cannot be ſo fierce, / For, he tames it, that fetters it in verſe.
    • 1735 January 13 (Gregorian calendar; indicated as1734),[Alexander] Pope,An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot, London: […] J[ohn] Wright for Lawton Gilliver […],→OCLC,page 7, lines124–125:
      As yet a Child, nor yet a Fool to Fame, / I liſp'd inNumbers, for theNumbers came.
  13. (countable) Aperformance; especially, a singlesong or song and dance routine within a larger show.
    For his secondnumber, he sang "The Moon Shines Bright".
  14. (singular only, formal) Agroup ofpeople.
    I include myself in theirnumber.
    • 2020 August 22,Robert McCrum, “For ever and a day: why we turn to Shakespeare at times of crisis”, inThe Observer‎[2]:
      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 ournumber have got divorced, one of us checked into rehab, and all of us have had distressful troubles with teenage kids.
  15. (countable, informal) Aperson.
    • 1968, Janet Burroway,The dancer from the dance: a novel,, Little, Brown, page40:
      I laughed. "Don't doubt that. She's a saucy littlenumber."
    • 1988,Erica Jong,Serenissima,, Dell, page214:
      "Signorina Jessica," says the maid, a saucy littlenumber, "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, page207:
      He had to focus on the mission, staying alive and getting out, not on the sexynumber rubbing up against him.
  16. (countable, informal) Anoutfit, particularly astylish one.
    • 2007, Cesca Martin,Agony Angel: So You Think You've Got Problems...,, Troubador Publishing Ltd, page134:
      The trouble was I was wearing my backless glitteringnumber 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, page46:
      "I doubt the sexynumber you wore earlier tonight fell from the sky."
  17. (slang, chiefly US) Amarijuana cigarette, orjoint; also, a quantity of marijuana bought from adealer.
    • 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 rannumbers out of a grocery store on 131st and Lenox.
    • 2009,Thomas Pynchon,Inherent Vice, Vintage, published2010, page12:
      Back at his place again, Doc rolled anumber, put on a late movie, found an old T-shirt, and sat tearing it up into short strips[…]
  18. (dated) Anissue of aperiodicalpublication.
    the latestnumber of a magazine
    • 1957 July, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, inRailway Magazine, page458:
      When, in July, 1897, my father brought home the firstnumber ofThe Railway Magazine, I little thought that, sixty years later, I should still be reading it, without having missed a singlenumber.
  19. A large amount, in contrast to a smaller amount; numerical preponderance.
    • 1980 May 10, Al King, “Braves travel to New England with reputation”, inThe Indiana Gazette:
      Despite last week's woes, the Braves still sportnumbers that would make Christie Brinkley blush.
  20. An activity; assignment; job, as incushy number.
Hyponyms
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grammar: Hyponyms of "number"
mathematics: Hyponyms of "number"
Derived terms
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lots of these are hyponyms and should ideally be listed above. But really, does anyone have such a boring life that they have nothing better to do?
Descendants
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Translations
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abstract entity used to describe quantity
numeral
mathematics: number
used to show the rank of something in a list or sequence
quantity
sequence of digits and letters used to register people, automobiles, etc.
informal: telephone number
grammar: state of being singular, dual or plural
poetic metres; verses, rhymes.
performance
informal: person
informal: item of clothing, particularly a stylish one
slang: marijuana cigarette, or quantity of marijuana
issue of a periodical publication

Verb

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number (third-person singular simple presentnumbers,present participlenumbering,simple past and past participlenumbered)

  1. (intransitive) Tototal orcount; toamount to.
    I don’t know how many books are in the library, but they mustnumber in the thousands.
    • 1977, United States Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime,Federal Role in Criminal Justice and Crime Research, page107:
      Do theynumber in the hundreds, do theynumber in the thousands? Do theynumber in the tens of thousand?
  2. (transitive, passive voice) Tolimit to a certain number; toreckon (as by fate) to be few in number.
    The old man knew that his days werenumbered.
    • 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, page209:
      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 becomenumbered?
  3. (transitive, literary or archaic) Tocount; todetermine the quantity of.
    The king ordered that all his subjects benumbered.
    Who cannumber 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 ſhallnumber them, throughout their armies.
  4. (transitive) Tolabel (items) with numbers; toassign 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 ServiceNumbered Publications: Supplement:
      “Public Health ServiceNumbered Publications – A Catalog, 1950-1962” and contains thosenumbered 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, consecutivelynumbered, 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 andnumbered, ready to be listed in the brokers’ offices.
  5. (transitive, withoff) Tocall out andassign a series of numbers (usually to people), either for the sake of dividing into groups or for counting.
    Shelleynumbered off the group into two teams for the baseball game.
    • 1870, USA House of Representatives,House Documents, page532:
      I counted them andnumbered 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.
  6. (transitive, withoff) Toenumerate orlist, especially while assigning numbers to.
    • 2019 January 11, Mark G. Turner,We Both Shall Row, My Love And I, FriesenPress,→ISBN, page367:
      Inumbered 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 […]
  7. (transitive, usually withamong) Toclassify orinclude (in a group of things)
    Alexander the Great's armynumbered an elite cavalry among its ranks.
    • 1839, Saint Cyprian (Bishop of Carthage.),The Treatises of S. Caecilius Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, and Martyr, page298:
      We fools counted their life madness, and their end to be without honour: how are theynumbered among the children of God, and their lot is among the Saints!
    • 1879, United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs,Report, page76:
      Theynumber 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, page69:
      We certainly endorse the essential purpose of S. 708 — namely, that an applicant should not obtain a grant simply because itnumbers 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, andnumber 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.
  8. (intransitive, usually withamong) To be classified or included (in a certain group or category of things).
    Her horsesnumber among the fastest in her country.
    • 2010 September 3, Catherine Tizard,Cat Among the Pigeons: A Memoir, Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited,→ISBN:
      Theynumber 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 theynumber among those who abuse their wives, they, just like abusing leaders, should stop.
Translations
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to total; to amount to
to be limited to a certain number
literary: to count—see alsocount
label with numbers; assign numbers to
to call out and assign numbers
to enumerate—see alsoenumerate
to classify or include (among)
to be classified or included (among)
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Etymology 2

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    Fromnumb(adjective) +-er.

    Pronunciation

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    Adjective

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    number

    1. comparative form ofnumb: morenumb

    Etymology 3

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    Equivalent tonumb(verb) +‎-er

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    Noun

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    number (pluralnumbers)

    1. Something thatnumbs.

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    Estonian

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    Alternative forms

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    Etymology

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    FromGermanNummer. The added -b- is analogous tokamber andklamber.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˈnumb̥er/,[ˈnumb̥er]
    • Rhymes:-umber
    • Hyphenation:num‧ber

    Noun

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    number (genitivenumbri,partitivenumbrit)

    1. number(the symbol representing the number, its character)
    2. number plate,licence plate,license plate
      Synonym:numbrimärk
    3. number(periodical (numbered) single issue)
      Synonym:ajalehenumber

    Declension

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    Declension ofnumber (ÕS type2/õpik, no gradation)
    singularplural
    nominativenumbernumbrid
    accusativenom.
    gen.numbri
    genitivenumbrite
    partitivenumbritnumbreid
    illativenumbrissenumbritesse
    numbreisse
    inessivenumbrisnumbrites
    numbreis
    elativenumbristnumbritest
    numbreist
    allativenumbrilenumbritele
    numbreile
    adessivenumbrilnumbritel
    numbreil
    ablativenumbriltnumbritelt
    numbreilt
    translativenumbriksnumbriteks
    numbreiks
    terminativenumbrininumbriteni
    essivenumbrinanumbritena
    abessivenumbritanumbriteta
    comitativenumbriganumbritega

    References

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    • number inSõnaveeb (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

    Middle English

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    Noun

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    number

    1. alternative form ofnombre

    Papiamentu

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    Etymology

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    FromEnglishnumber.

    An analogy of the Papiamentu wordnòmber "name".

    Noun

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    number

    1. number
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