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Definition of numbers : pl. of Number. The fourth book of the Pentateuch, containing the census of the Hebrews.

Synonyms:

poesy, metrical composition, numbers pool, rime, numbers game, song, poem, verse, poetry, meter, numbers racket

pieces, sums, allotments, portions, proportions, amounts, totals, measures, rations, quanta, quantities, allowances

characters, enumerates, integers, swarms, throngs, bits, ciphers, symbols, counts, tallies, signs, notations, abounds, digits, figures, numerals

Usage examples:

• It was so beautiful, and there were such numbers of people. - "My Little Lady", Eleanor Frances Poynter.
• Sometimes the weather is bad for them, the season is too hot or too cold, too wet or too dry, and then they do not appear in large numbers. - "The Insect Folk", Margaret Warner Morley.
• We were obliged to give way to superior numbers. - "The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839)", Thomas Clarkson.