Definition/Meaning of number

• English - Noun: number (countable and uncountable, plural numbers) (countable, uncountable) Quantity of countable things. The number of malnourished children has decreased. Any number of people can be reading from a given repository at a time. (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 . The…
• English - Verb: 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…
• English - Adjective: number (comparative) comparative form of numb : more numb
• English - Alternative forms: numbre ( obsolete )
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. 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…