English Explanatory Dictionary

numeral

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A symbol that is not a word and represents a number, such as the Arabic numerals 1, 2, 3 or the Roman numerals I, V, X, L.
  2. A representation of a number composed of such symbols.
  3. A number word, a simple or compound word for a number often having particular grammatical attributes depending on the language.
  4. A card whose rank is a number (usually including the ace as 1).
adj
  1. Of or relating to numbers; numerical.

Pronunciation

nyo͞oʹm(ə)rəl /ˈnjuːməɹəl/ /ˈnjuːmɹəl/ no͞oʹm(ə)rəl /ˈnuməɹəl/ /ˈnumɹəl/ en-us-numeral.ogg

Word forms

numeral numerals

Etymology

As an adjective, from Middle English numeral, numerall, from Latin numerālis (“pertaining to a number”), from numerus (“a number”). As a noun, via Middle French numeral.

Synonyms

numeric

Related words

digit

Derived words

Arabic numeral binary numeral system Chinese numeral Church numeral collective numeral Cyrillic numeral denumeral Devanagari numeral financial numeral Greek numeral Hangzhou numeral Hindu-Arabic numeral Hindu numeral Indo-Arabic numeral innumeral nonnumeral numeraled numerally numeral prefix pronumeral rod numeral Roman numeral supernumerary Suzhou numeral tesseral transnumeral numeral system
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