Associations to the word «Numeral»

Wiktionary

NUMERAL, noun. A symbol that is not a word and represents a number, such as the Arabic numerals 1, 2, 3 and the Roman numerals I, V, X, L.
NUMERAL, noun. (linguistics) A word representing a number.
NUMERAL, noun. (card games) A card whose rank is a number (usually including the ace as 1).
NUMERAL, adjective. Of or relating to numbers; numerical.

Dictionary definition

NUMERAL, noun. A symbol used to represent a number; "he learned to write the numerals before he went to school".
NUMERAL, adjective. Of or relating to or denoting numbers; "a numeral adjective".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope