Numeral
WordNet
adjective
(1) Of or relating to or denoting numbers
"A numeral adjective"
"Numerical analysis"
noun
(2) A symbol used to represent a number
"He learned to write the numerals before he went to school"
WiktionaryText
Noun
- A word or symbol representing a number.
- The word “fifteen”, the Arabic numeral “15”, and the Roman numeral “XV” are all numerals representing the number fifteen.
Quotations
- 2002 — Laurie Bauer & Rodney Huddleston, "Lexical word-formation", p1621-1722 in The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, p1715
- We use the term numeral for linguistic expressions and number for meanings. For example, five is a numeral expressing the number "5" - and fifteen hundred and one thousand five hundred are different numerals expressing the same number, "1,500".
Noun
- numeral (word representing a number)