Usually means: Extra, beyond usual number required.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word supernumerary:

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  1. supernumerary: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. supernumerary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. supernumerary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. supernumerary: Collins English Dictionary
  5. supernumerary: Vocabulary.com
  6. Supernumerary, supernumerary: Wordnik
  7. supernumerary: Wiktionary
  8. supernumerary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. supernumerary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. supernumerary: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. supernumerary: Dictionary.com
  12. supernumerary: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Supernumerary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Supernumerary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. supernumerary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. supernumerary: Rhymezone
  17. Supernumerary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. supernumerary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. supernumerary: Free Dictionary
  20. supernumerary: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. supernumerary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. supernumerary: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. supernumerary: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. supernumerary: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Supernumerary: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. supernumerary: Medical dictionary
  5. Supernumerary: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. supernumerary: A Word A Day

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A person who works in a group, association, or public office without forming part of the regular staff (the numerary).
noun:  (film, theater) An extra or walk-on, often non-speaking, in a film or play; a spear carrier.
noun:  Something which is beyond the prescribed or standard amount or number.
noun:  (zoology) An animal which has not formed a pair bond and is therefore single.
noun:  (Roman Catholicism) A married man or woman who is a secular member of Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic religious institution.
adjective:  Greater in number than.
adjective:  Beyond the prescribed or standard amount or number; excess, extra.
adjective:  (biology, specifically) Of an organ or structure: additional to what is normally present.
adjective:  Beyond what is necessary; redundant.

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