number

English

Alternative forms

• nummer (dialectal)
• numbre (obsolete)

Etymology 1

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 distribute, to give, to take”). Compare Saterland Frisian Nummer, Nuumer, West Frisian nûmer, Dutch nummer (“number”), German Nummer (“number”), Danish nummer (“number”), Swedish nummer (“number”), Icelandic númer (“number”). Displaced Middle English ȝetæl and rime; more at tell, tale and rhyme. Distantly related (via Proto-Indo-European) to obsolete English nim (“to take, seize”) and its Germanic cognates (e.g. German nehmen), hence also to numb.

Pronunciation

• enPR: nŭmʹbər, IPA^(key): /ˈnʌmbər/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [ˈnʌmbə]
  • (US, Canada) IPA^(key): [ˈnʌ̟mbɚ]

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  • (Australia) IPA^(key): [ˈnɐmbɐ]
  • (Scotland) IPA^(key): [ˈnʌmbəɾ]
• (Northern England) enPR: no͝omʹbər, IPA^(key): /ˈnʊmbə/
• Rhymes: -ʌmbə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: num‧ber

Noun

number (countable and uncountable, plural numbers)

2. Quantity of countable things.

   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.

   • 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.

3. (countable) An abstract entity used to describe quantity.

   Zero, one, −1, 2.5, and pi are all numbers.

4. (countable) A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer.

   Synonyms: scalar, (obsolete) rime

   The number 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”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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.

5. (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 $e^{i\pi }+1=0$ includes the most important numbers: 1, 0, $\pi$, $i$, and $e$.

6. (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.

7. A sequence of digits and letters used to register people, automobiles, and various other items.

   Her passport number is C01X864TN.

   You can take the number 8 (bus) all the way to the airport.

9. (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.

   • 1974, “Rikki Don't Lose That Number”, performed by Steely Dan:

     Rikki, don't lose that number / You don't wanna call nobody else / Send it off in a letter to yourself

   • 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.

11. (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.

12. (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.

13. (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".

14. (singular only, formal) A group of people.

    I include myself in their number.

    • 2020 August 22, Robert McCrum, “For ever and a day: why we turn to Shakespeare at times of crisis”, in The 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 our number have got divorced, one of us checked into rehab, and all of us have had distressful troubles with teenage kids.

15. (countable, informal) A person.
    • 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.

16. (countable, informal) An outfit, particularly a stylish one.
    • 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."

17. (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 […]

18. (dated) An issue of a periodical publication.

    the latest number of a magazine

    • 1957 July, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 458:

      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.

19. 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.

20. An activity; assignment; job, as in cushy number.

Hyponyms

• 0800 number
• 11 o'clock number
• 800 number
• 900 number
• Abbe number
• abbreviated number
• accession number
• account number
• acid number
• aggregation number
• aircraft registration number
• all-figure number
• angel number
• A number
• a number of
• any number of
• apocalyptic number
• Archimedes number
• Armstrong number
• atomic mass number
• atomic number
• Atwood number
• autonumber
• Avogadro's number
• azimuthal quantum number
• back number
• Bacon number
• Bagnold number
• baryon number
• basic reproduction number
• basic reproductive number
• Bates number
• Bejan number
• bib number
• Biot number
• book-number
• book number
• box number
• call number
• carbon number
• cetane number
• chromosome number
• contact number
• control number
• coordination number
• copy number
• critical Reynolds number
• crooked number
• crossnumber
• Cullum number
• curb number
• Cutter number
• devil's number
• dial number
• diamond number
• disc number
• do a number two
• Dunbar's number
• edge number
• electron number
• element number
• E number
• Erdos number
• Erdős number
• falling number
• false number 9
• fax number
• fixed-point number
• flight number
• floating-point number
• f-number
• frame number
• Fresnel number
• Froude number
• furry number
• GLIDE number
• God's number
• Grabovoi number
• Greek number
• Hagberg number
• Hodges number
• Hopf number
• Horowitz number
• house number
• illegal number
• imperfect number
• iodine number
• iodine number saponification
• IP number
• item number
• kappa number
• Kenn number
• Kirschner number
• Knudsen number
• Köchel number
• Laws number
• lepton number
• line number
• L-number
• lot number
• Mach number
• magic number
• magnetic quantum number
• mass number
• matching numbers
• mesh number
• Messier number
• mobile number
• model number
• motor octane number
• national insurance number
• natural numbers
• NI number
• nothing-up-my-sleeve number
• nucleon number
• number 10
• number 2
• number 8
• number eight
• numberless
• number needed to harm
• number nine
• number one
• number ten
• number two
• numeral
• occupation number
• octane number
• opposite number
• orbital quantum number
• oxidation number
• part number
• personal identification number
• phone number
• PIN number
• pitting resistance equivalent number
• Polenske number
• Prandtl number
• preferred number
• premium-rate telephone number
• principal quantum number
• private enterprise number
• proton number
• quantum number
• random number
• registration number
• regnal number
• Reichert-Meissl number
• Reichert-Meissl-Wollny number
• research octane number
• Reynolds number
• Richardson number
• ringer equivalence number
• R number
• roll number
• Roud number
• round number
• Rouse number
• routing number
• seed number
• serial number
• sex number
• sieve number
• silent number
• social insurance number
• social-security number
• social security number
• soup number five
• spin quantum number
• Stephanus number
• street number
• Strouhal number
• student number
• subnumber
• sunspot number
• tail number
• tailnumber
• tax file number
• telephone number
• tone number
• total base number
• unique identification number
• unknown number
• vanity number
• vehicle identification number
• version number
• Weber number
• weed number
• Wolf number
• Wratten number
• wrong number
• Zürich number

grammar: Hyponyms of "number"

• abstract number
• adverbial number
• cardinal number (cardinal)
• collective number
• concrete number
• distributive number
• dual number
• fractional number
• ordinal number (ordinal)
• trial number

mathematics: Hyponyms of "number"

• abundant number
• Achilles number
• achromatic number
• aleph number
• algebraic number
• amicable number
• autobiographical number
• automorphic number
• Bell number
• Bernoulli number
• Betti number
• bicomplex number
• binary number
• binding number
• broken number
• cake number
• Carmichael number
• Carol number
• Catalan number
• chromatic number
• clique number
• complex number
• composite number
• condition number
• cop number
• counting number
• covering number
• crossing number
• Cullen number
• cyclic number
• cyclomatic number
• decimal number
• defective number
• deficient number
• Delannoy number
• de Moivre number
• domination number
• double-number
• double number
• dual number
• edge covering number
• epsilon number
• Euler's number
• even number
• excessive number
• Fermat number
• Fibonacci number
• figurate number
• fraction
• friendly number
• Frobenius number
• Gödel number
• Goldbach number
• golden number
• Graham's number
• Grundy number
• hailstone number
• happy number
• Hardy-Ramanujan number
• harmonic number
• Harshad number
• Hartogs number
• Heegner number
• Heesch number
• hemiperfect number
• hexagonal number
• highly composite number
• homogeneous number
• hyperbolic number
• hypercomplex number
• hypernumber
• hyperperfect number
• hyperreal number
• ideal number
• imaginary number
• independence number
• integer
• integral number
• inverse number
• irrational number
• Kaprekar number
• Keith number
• kissing number
• Lah number
• Leonardo number
• Leyland number
• linking number
• Liouville number
• Listing number
• Lucas number
• Ludolphian number
• Ludolph's number
• Lychrel number
• Markov number
• matching number
• meandric number
• mixed number
• Motzkin number
• multinumber
• multiplicative number
• Narayana number
• narcissistic number
• natural number
• negative number
• neutralization number
• neutron number
• Newton number
• nimber
• Niven number
• nonhypotenuse number
• non-hypotenuse number
• nonstandard number
• nude number
• number needed to harm
• numeric
• oblong number
• odd number
• p-adic number
• pancake number
• Pell number
• pentatope number
• perfect number
• perplex number
• Pisot number
• Pisot-Vijayaraghavan number
• positive number
• powerful number
• practical number
• prime number
• Proth number
• pseudoperfect number
• purely imaginary number
• PV number
• pyramidal number
• quaternary number
• Ramanujan-Hardy number
• Ramsey number
• rational number
• rational numbers
• Rayo's number
• real number
• real numbers
• rectangular number
• repfigit number
• rough number
• RSA number
• sad number
• Sagan's number
• saponification number
• schizophrenic number
• Schröder number
• semiperfect number
• Sierpinski number
• Skewes' number
• sociable number
• sphenic number
• split-complex number
• square number
• Stirling number
• Stirling number of the second kind
• Stirling partition number
• superabundant number
• superior highly composite number
• supernumber
• superparticular number
• surreal number
• taxicab number
• tetrahedral number
• transcendental number
• transfinite number
• triangular number
• tricomplex number
• turning number
• unhappy number
• untouchable number
• vampire number
• vertex separation number
• wave number
• wavenumber
• weird number
• whole number
• whole numbers
• winding number
• Zeisel number

• See also Thesaurus:number

Derived terms

• 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
• numberly
• 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 “number”

Descendants

• → Brunei Malay: numbur
• → Burmese: နံပါတ် (nampat)
• → Chinese:
  • Cantonese: 冧巴 (lam1 baa1-2)
• → Hindustani: नंबर (nambar) / نمبر (nambar)
• → Japanese: ナンバー (nanbā)
• → Kikuyu: namba
• → Malay: nombor, nomor (Indonesia)
  • → Central Dusun: numbul
• → Māori: nama
• → Navajo: námboo
• → Papiamentu: number
• → Palauan: lambang
• → Tausug: umbul
• → Tok Pisin: namba
• → Swahili: nambari, namba
• → Yoruba: nọ́ḿbà

Translations

abstract entity used to describe quantity

• Abkhaz: ахыҧхьаӡара (axəpxʲadzara)
• Afrikaans: aantal (af), getal (af)
• Albanian: sasi (sq) f, numër (sq) m,
• Altai:

  Northern Altai: тоо (too), сан (san)

  Southern Altai: сагыш (sagïš), сан (san)

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Dusun:

  Central Dusun: numbul

• 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

• Frisian:

  Old Frisian: rīm

• Friulian: numar m
• Fula:

  Adlam: 𞤀𞤣𞤢𞤣𞤵, 𞤫𞤥𞥆𞤦𞤫𞤪𞤫

  Latin: adadu, emmbere

• Galician: número (gl) m
• Georgian: რიცხვი (ricxvi)
• German: Zahl (de) f

  Old High German: rīm

• Gothic: 𐍂𐌰𐌸𐌾𐍉 f (raþjō)
• Greek: αριθμός (el) m (arithmós), πλήθος (el) n (plíthos)

  Ancient Greek: ἀριθμός m (arithmós)

• 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)
• 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

  Old Javanese: wilaṅ

• Jeju: 수정 (sujeong)
• Karachay-Balkar: ^{(please verify)} сан (san)
• Karaim: сан
• Kazakh: сан (san), нөмір (nömir)
• 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)

  Brunei Malay: numbur

• Malayalam: സംഖ്യ (ml) (saṅkhya)
• Maltese: numru (mt)
• Manchu: ᡨᠣᠨ (ton)
• Manx: earroo
• Mauritian Creole: nimero
• Mirandese: númaro m
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: тоо (mn) (too)

  Mongolian script: ᠲᠣᠭ᠎ᠠ (toɣ-a)

• Navajo: námboo, ánéeltʼeʼ, ákwíígíí, nóomba
• Nepali: संख्या f (saṅkhyā), अंक m (aṅka)
• Nogai: сан (san)
• 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
• 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 (raġam), عَدَد (adad), نُمْرِه (nomre)

• Piedmontese: nùmer m
• Polish: liczba (pl) f
• Portuguese: número (pt) m
• Quechua: yupay
• Rabha: জায়
• Romanian: număr (ro) n
• Romansh: numer m, nomer
• Russian: число́ (ru) n (čisló)
• Sami:

  Inari Sami: nummeer

  Northern Sami: lohku, tálla

• Sanskrit: संख्या (sa) f (saṃkhyā)
• Sardinian: númeru m, númunu m
• Scottish Gaelic: àireamh f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бро̑ј m, чи́сло (sh) n

  Latin: brȏj (sh) m, číslo (sh) n

• Seychellois Creole: nimero
• Shor: сан
• Sicilian: nummuru (scn), nùmmuru (scn) m
• Sindhi:

  Arabic: اَن٘کُ m

  Devanagari: अंगु 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

• 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)

  Ottoman Turkish: سایی (sayı), عدد (aded)

• 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: nommer
• 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)

  Ancient Greek: ἀριθμός m (arithmós)

• 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)
• Lingala: motango
• 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 (raġam)

• 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)
• Salar: sanaq
• Scottish Gaelic: àireamh f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: brȏj (sh) m

  Latin: 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), αριθμός (el) m (arithmós)

  Ancient Greek: ἀριθμός 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 (raġam)

• Plautdietsch: Zol f
• Polish: liczba (pl) f
• Portuguese: número (pt) m
• Romanian: număr (ro) n
• Russian: число́ (ru) n (čisló)
• Salar: san
• Scottish Gaelic: àireamh f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бро̑ј m

  Latin: 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

• Altai:

  Southern Altai: тоо (too)

• 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 (nömir)
• 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

  Latin: brȏj (sh) m

• Slovak: číslo (sk) n
• Slovene: številko n
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: cysło n, numer m

• 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), брой (bg) m (broj)
• Catalan: nombre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 多少 (zh) (duōshǎo), 數碼 / 数码 (zh) (shùmǎ)

• Comorian:

  Ngazidja Comorian: hisaɓu class 9/10

• 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)
• Māori: tokopae (of people)
• Nahuatl: tlapoalli
• 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

  Latin: 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 (te'dod‍)
• 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
• Swedish: littera (sv) c, nummer (sv) n
• Telugu: సంఖ్య (te) (saṅkhya)
• 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

  Latin: brȏj (sh) m

• Slovak: číslo (sk) n
• Slovene: številko n
• Swedish: nummer (sv) 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)
• Bulgarian: число (bg) n (čislo)
• 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

  Latin: 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))
• Welsh: rhif (cy) m

poetic metres; verses, rhymes.

• Bulgarian: стихове (bg) m pl (stihove)
• Finnish: säkeet pl

performance

• Belarusian: ну́мар m (númar)
• Bulgarian: изпълнение (bg) n (izpălnenie)
• 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: person

• Bulgarian: парче (bg) n (parče)
• Finnish: pakkaus (fi)
• Hungarian: darab (hu)

informal: item of clothing, particularly a stylish one

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: luomus (fi)
• Hungarian: ruhadarab (hu)
• Welsh: dilledyn (cy) m

slang: marijuana cigarette, or quantity of marijuana

• Bulgarian: джойнт m (džojnt)
• Finnish: jointti (fi) (cigarette)

issue of a periodical publication

• Bulgarian: брой (bg) m (broj)
• Finnish: numero (fi)
• Hungarian: szám (hu)
• Italian: numero (it) m
• Japanese: 号 (ja) (ごう, gō)
• Polish: numer (pl) m
• Russian: номер (ru) m (nomer)
• Swedish: nummer (sv) n
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: rhifyn m

Verb

number (third-person singular simple present numbers, present participle numbering, simple past and past participle numbered)

1. (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?

2. (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?

3. (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.

4. (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.

5. (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.

6. (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 […]

7. (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.

8. (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.

Translations

to total; to amount to

• Asturian: numberar
• Bulgarian: наброявам (bg) impf (nabrojavam), наброя pf (nabroja)
• 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)
• Polish: liczyć (pl) impf
• Portuguese: amontar (pt)
• Russian: насчи́тывать (ru) (nasčítyvatʹ), исчисля́ться (ru) (isčisljátʹsja)
• Turkish: saymak (tr)

to be limited to a certain number

• Bulgarian: преброен съм impf (prebroen săm)

literary: to count — see also count

• Bulgarian: преброявам (bg) impf (prebrojavam), преброя pf (prebroja)
• French: nombrer (fr)

label with numbers; assign numbers to

• Arabic: رَقَّمَ (ar) (raqqama)
• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܡܢܐ (mna)

• Armenian: համարակալել (hy) (hamarakalel)
• 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

• Bulgarian: преброявам (bg) impf (prebrojavam), преброя pf (prebroja)

to enumerate — see also enumerate

• Bulgarian: изброявам (bg) impf (izbrojavam), изброя pf (izbroja)
• French: dénombrer (fr)

to classify or include (among)

• Bulgarian: включвам (bg) impf (vključvam), включа pf (vključa)
• French: compter (fr)

to be classified or included (among)

• Bulgarian: съм сред (bg) (săm sred)
• French: compter (fr)

See also

• (grammatical numbers): singular, dual, trial, quadral, paucal, plural, singulative
• Wiktionary’s Appendix of numbers

References

• number on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “number”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Etymology 2

From numb (adjective) + -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: nŭm'ə, IPA^(key): /ˈnʌmə/
• (US) enPR: nŭm'ər, IPA^(key): /ˈnʌmɚ/

• Audio (US); “number” (adjective):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: numb‧er

Adjective

number

1. comparative form of numb: more numb

Etymology 3

Equivalent to numb (verb) +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: nŭm'ə, IPA^(key): /ˈnʌmə/
• (US) enPR: nŭm'ər, IPA^(key): /ˈnʌmɚ/
• Hyphenation: numb‧er

Noun

number (plural numbers)

1. Something that numbs.

Anagrams

• numbre, renumb

Estonian

Alternative forms

• nr (abbreviation)

Etymology

From German Nummer. The added -b- is analogous to kamber and klamber.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

number (genitive numbri, partitive numbrit)

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

Declension of number (ÕS type 2e/minut, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		number	numbrid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	numbri
genitive			numbrite
partitive		numbrit	numbreid
illative		numbrisse	numbritesse numbreisse
inessive		numbris	numbrites numbreis
elative		numbrist	numbritest numbreist
allative		numbrile	numbritele numbreile
adessive		numbril	numbritel numbreil
ablative		numbrilt	numbritelt numbreilt
translative		numbriks	numbriteks numbreiks
terminative		numbrini	numbriteni
essive		numbrina	numbritena
abessive		numbrita	numbriteta
comitative		numbriga	numbritega

References

• 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

Middle English

Noun

number

1. alternative form of nombre

Papiamentu

Etymology

From English number.

Noun

number

1. number