numeral
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.
Other meanings
A representation of a number composed of such symbols.
A number word, a simple or compound word for a number often having particular grammatical attributes depending on the language.
Synonyms
- number
Related words
- denumeral
- financial numeral
- Hangzhou numeral
- innumeral
- nonnumeral
- numeraled
- numerally
- pronumeral
- supernumerary
- tesseral
- transnumeral
- Arabic numeral
Word history
From Latin "numerālis" (pertaining to a number).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “numeral” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.