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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

NU'MEROUS, a. [L.]
1. Being many, or consisting of a great number of individuals; as a numerous army; a numerous body; a numerous people.
2. Consisting of poetic numbers; melodious; musical. In prose, a style becomes numerous by the alternate disposition or intermixture of long and short syllables, or of long and short words; or by a judicious selection and disposition of smooth flowing words, and by closing the periods with important or well sounding words.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: amounting to a large indefinite number; "numerous times"; "the family was numerous"; "Palomar's fans are legion" [syn: numerous, legion]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin numerosus, from numerus Date: 15th century consisting of great numbers of units or individuals <born into a numerous family>; also many <received numerous complaints> • numerously adverb • numerousness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 (with pl.) great in number (received numerous gifts). 2 consisting of many (a numerous family). Derivatives: numerously adv. numerousness n. Etymology: L numerosus (as NUMBER)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Numerous Nu"mer*ous, a. [L. numerosus. See Number.] 1. Consisting of a great number of units or individual objects; being many; as, a numerous army. Such and so numerous was their chivalry. --Milton. 2. Consisting of poetic numbers; rhythmical; measured and counted; melodious; musical. [Obs.] Such prompt eloquence Flowed from their lips, in prose or numerous verse. --Milton. -- Nu"mer*ous*ly, adv. -- Nu"mer*ous*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. If people or things are numerous, they exist or are present in large numbers. Sex crimes were just as numerous as they are today... Despite numerous attempts to diet, her weight soared. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Large (in number), made up of many.

Moby Thesaurus

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