Usually means: Quantity representing value or count.
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We found 51 dictionaries that define the word number:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. number: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. number, number: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. number: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. number: Collins English Dictionary
  5. number: Vocabulary.com
  6. Number, number, number: Wordnik
  7. number: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. number: Wiktionary
  9. number: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. number: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. number: Dictionary.com
  12. number: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. number: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Number (disambiguation), Number (grammar), Number (linguistics), Number (magazine), Number (music), Number (sports), Number, The Number (book): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Number: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. number: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. number: Rhymezone
  18. number: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. number: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. number: Free Dictionary
  21. number: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. number: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. number: Mnemonic Dictionary

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Number: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  3. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  4. number-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  5. Number: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Number (mathematics), number: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Number (disambiguation), Number (mathematics), number: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. number: Medical dictionary
  4. Number (mathematics): Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  3. number: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Number: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Number: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Number: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  3. number: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. number: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. number: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Number: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. numb'er, number: Urban Dictionary
  5. Number: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See numberable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) An abstract entity used to describe quantity.
noun:  (countable) A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer.
noun:  (countable, mathematics) An element of one of several sets: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, and sometimes extensions such as hypercomplex numbers, etc.
noun:  (Followed by a numeral; used attributively) Indicating the position of something in a list or sequence. Abbreviations: No or No., no or no. (in each case, sometimes written with a superscript "o", like Nº or №). The symbol "#" is also used in this manner.
noun:  Quantity.
noun:  A sequence of digits and letters used to register people, automobiles, and various other items.
noun:  (countable, informal) A telephone number.
noun:  (grammar) Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection.
noun:  (now rare, in the plural) Poetic metres; verses, rhymes.
noun:  (countable) A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show.
noun:  (singular only, formal) A group of people.
noun:  (countable, informal) A person.
noun:  (countable, informal) An outfit, particularly a stylish one.
noun:  (slang, chiefly US) A marijuana cigarette, or joint; also, a quantity of marijuana bought from a dealer.
noun:  (dated) An issue of a periodical publication.
noun:  A large amount, in contrast to a smaller amount; numerical preponderance.
noun:  An activity; assignment; job, as in cushy number.
verb:  (intransitive) To total or count; to amount to.
verb:  (transitive, passive voice) To limit to a certain number; to reckon (as by fate) to be few in number.
verb:  (transitive, literary or archaic) To count; to determine the quantity of.
verb:  (transitive) To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).
verb:  (transitive, with off) To call out and assign a series of numbers (usually to people), either for the sake of dividing into groups or for counting.
verb:  (transitive, with off) To enumerate or list, especially while assigning numbers to.
verb:  (transitive, usually with among) To classify or include (in a group of things)
verb:  (intransitive, usually with among) To be classified or included (in a certain group or category of things).

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