numerous

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnuməɹəs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnjuːməɹəs/

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• Hyphenation: nu‧mer‧ous

Adjective

numerous ‎(comparative more numerous, superlative most numerous)

1. Indefinitely large numerically, many.
   • 2012 March-April, Colin Allen, “Do I See What You See?”, in American Scientist^[1], volume 100, number 2, page 168:

     Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.

   • There are numerous definitions of the word 'man'.

Synonyms

• See many

Derived terms

Derived terms

overnumerous overnumerousness supernumerous

supernumerousness unnumerous

Translations

Indefinitely large numerically

• Arabic: عَدِيد ‎(ʿadīd)
• Catalan: nombrós (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 眾多 (zh), 众多 (zh) ‎(zhòngduō), 多 (zh) ‎(duō)

• Czech: četný m, početný m
• Dutch: talrijk (nl), ontelbaar (nl), numereus
• Esperanto: multnombra
• Finnish: lukuisa (fi)
• French: nombreux (fr)
• Georgian: ურიცხვი ‎(uricxvi), უამრავი ‎(uamravi), დიდძალი ‎(didʒali)
• German: zahlreich (de), vielzählig
• Hebrew: רַב (he) ‎(rav)
• Hungarian: számos (hu), nagyszámú (hu)

• Interlingua: numerose
• Irish: líonmhar
• Italian: numeroso (it)
• Japanese: 多数の (ja) ‎(たすうの, tasū-no)
• Korean: 수많은 ‎(sumaneun)
• Latin: frequens
• Old English: getælfull
• Polish: liczny (pl) m
• Portuguese: numeroso (pt)
• Romanian: numeros (ro) m, n
• Russian: многочи́сленный (ru) ‎(mnogočíslennyj)
• Spanish: numeroso m, numerosa (es) f
• Swedish: talrik (sv)
• Vietnamese: đông (vi), nhiều (vi)