n. 1 numeral, integer, figure, digit The columns of numbers were entered in a neat hand 2 few, handful, crowd, slew, gang, bunch, party, bevy, covey, troop, company, platoon, swarm, horde, multitude, mob, host, army, mass, hundred, thousand, million, billion; several, many, numbers, legions, US and Canadian slew(s) or slue(s), Colloq loads, tons A number of people attended the meeting An enormous number of viruses could fit on the head of a pin. 3 issue; edition, copy The fourth number of the quarterly is published at the end of the year
v. 4 count, enumerate, compute, calculate, tally, figure (up), add (up), include, total, tot (up), reckon, sum (up): Who can number the stars?