numerous
amounting to a large indefinite number
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,631 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,363 times across 155,168 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- amounting to a large indefinite number also: legion numerous timesthe family was numerous
numerous in real books
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Campeggio was likewise attended by a numerous train.
Windsor Castle · William Harrison Ainsworth · Chapter 1
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There were only eleven of the original stock then alive, surrounded with a numerous offspring of children and grandchildren.
The pirates own book · Charles Ellms · Chapter 1
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She attempted to count their numerous little faces, so regular, so finely cut into hexagons, more polished, more brilliant than diamonds.
Piccolissima · Adélaïde de Montgolfier · Chapter 1
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The captain was now reading the little note-book wherein he kept a record of his investments, which were numerous and varied.
The Intrusion of Jimmy · P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse · Chapter 1
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The commissary knew the importance of ascertaining all this: but although the witnesses were numerous enough, they possessed but little information.
The Lerouge Case · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1