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number
Part of speech: NounA unit; one, or more than one; a total of units; multitude; one of a series; in grammar, quality of a word by which it refers to one ( singular number), or to more than one ( plural number); poetry, meter, or verse: usually in plural; as, he wrote in numbers.
Part of speech: VerbTo count; mark with a number; amount to.
Usage examples "number":- Now the number of shepherds also happened to be three. - "Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846", James Richardson.
- As the time for the fight drew near, a number of Coburn's friends came on from New York. - "Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi", George H. Devol.
- And that, too, may explain a number of other matters. - "The Firing Line", Robert W. Chambers.