numbers

1. 1.

   the fourth book of the Old Testament; contains a record of the number of Israelites who followed Moses out of Egypt

   SynonymsBook of Numbers

   Broaderbook

   Part ofTorahOld Testament
2. 2.

   an illegal daily lottery

   Synonymsnumbers poolnumbers gamenumbers racket

   Broaderlottery

Other forms of numbers

plural

numberses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about numbers

What does numbers mean?

numbers means "the fourth book of the Old Testament; contains a record of the number of Israelites who followed Moses out of Egypt". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in numbers?

numbers has 2 syllables: num-bers. The stress falls on "num". In IPA it is /ˈnʌmbɚz/.

What is another word for numbers?

Close synonyms include Book of Numbers, numbers pool, numbers game, numbers racket. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is numbers a common word?

numbers is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.