Definitions for numeral

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numeral nu·mer·al

Spelling: [noo-mer-uh l, nyoo-; noom-r Numeral is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 213 anagrams from letters in numeral (aelmnru).

Definitions for numeral

noun

1. a word, letter, symbol, or figure, etc., expressing a number; number:

adjective

1. of, relating to, or consisting of numbers or numerals.
2. expressing or noting a number or numbers.

Origin of numeral

1520-30; Late Latin numerālis of, belonging to number, equivalent to Latin numer(us) number + -ālis -al¹

Examples for numeral

He can not even say “two” correctly, without applying the numeral to some object.

We all dance the entire DSM IV (and its coming progeny, the Roman numeral–free DSM 5) right down the line.

And if these Kufic characters reached there, then why not the numeral forms as well?

If you are invited into the office of its director, you can see a clock on the wall that has a small hole near the numeral 1.

This selection is divided into three parts, each headed with a Roman numeral.

We have in this paragraph examples of the use of three of the “numeral particles.”

numeral adjectives are those which limit nouns as to number or order.

Initial for hue, numeral above for value, numeral below for chroma.

Ordinal—That form of the numeral that shows the order of anything in a series.

numeral adjectives answer the question how many or in what order.