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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
numerous
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
numerous occasions
▪ She has been late on numerous occasions.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ The early hill forts have been studied by waves of archaeologists almost as numerous as their early invaders.
▪ The steps leading up to the launch of a new product or product line are just as numerous.
As the inflation worsened and as numerous small private entrepreneurs found themselves discriminated against by government controls, they went on strike.
▪ A recent estimate suggests that members with farming and related experience are twice as numerous as those experienced in the park purposes.
more
▪ During the Second World War, when Sherif became a psychologist, women were much more numerous among psychological testers than experimenters.
▪ And if they are more numerous, then maybe the dead possess more spiritual power as well.
▪ The literature of the classical approach is much more numerous.
▪ What are the real hazards from these smaller, much more numerous impactors?
▪ These were more numerous and more complicated than the two groups of conformist and non-conformist boys identified by Willis.
▪ Far more numerous are those with nothing to do, with nowhere to go.
▪ Norse raids have become ever more numerous.
▪ However, highwaymen and armed guerrilla bands were becoming more numerous, especially along the roads from the seacoast to the capital.
most
▪ Of the three types of general body fur on the wild cat, the down hairs are the most numerous.
▪ Craters with diameters of twenty to one hundred kilometers are most numerous.
▪ The Bengal Tiger is the most numerous of the races that survive today.
▪ The most numerous were the rhynchosaurs.
▪ Winter visitors probably arrive in November, sometimes October, and are most numerous in November and December.
▪ Until their dissolution in 1832, the Militia was the most numerous body in the archipelago.
▪ Thus it seems clear that arctica is the most numerous species on spring passage.
so
▪ Well, but - so some readers may be saying or thinking - what about the content of these so numerous poems?
▪ The differ-ent interests involved are so numerous and so contradictory that no one could reasonably predict how present conflicts will turn out.
▪ Dragons so numerous that their wings darkened the sky descended on the Chaos Host.
▪ Frequently the visitors were so numerous they could not fit into the house, so Seymour began preaching from the porch.
▪ The subsystems they have to test are so numerous and varied that they may not even be able to locate them.
▪ The reasons are so numerous as to become seductive.
▪ Pheasants are so numerous in Norfolk that it's easy to take them for granted.
▪ The priests in Jerusalem were so numerous that they had to take turns in performing Temple ceremonies.
too
▪ The examples are too numerous to quote, so I shall confine myself to two.
▪ There are other examples, too numerous to list.
▪ Applications within pure mathematics other than those found in the text are far too numerous and diverse to mention here.
▪ The advantages are too numerous to mention.
▪ The program comes with many more features too numerous to mention.
▪ There were others, too numerous to mention, whose contributions where similarly phenomenal.
▪ The individuals who have contributed are far too numerous to mention.
▪ They are too numerous to record herewith, but I shall take just one or two to illustrate the point under discussion.
very
▪ Such feather stars are very numerous in some reef habitats today.
▪ Losers are often very numerous and lose large amounts of their income.
▪ The deer had become very numerous by this time in the New Forest, and there were numerous complaints about their depredations.
▪ The intensity of heating culminates at perihelion, when dust devils become very numerous.
▪ The paradoxes which then result are very numerous.
▪ As I have already said, the cases are very numerous.
■ NOUN
example
▪ There are numerous examples of ways in which schools have worked to establish an understanding and identity with the curriculum by parents.
▪ The circuitry was composed of electric eels, and there were colorful fish and liquid poisons and numerous examples of evil.
▪ There have been numerous examples of varying degrees of seriousness over the years.
▪ The numerous examples vary in importance and location.
▪ There are numerous examples too of the more general training that might be offered by humanities computing departments.
▪ On a lower level of importance there are numerous examples of the prevalence and occasional success of political espionage.
▪ There are numerous examples of tricks like this.
▪ There are numerous examples of the manner in which distorted religious teaching has done harm.
occasion
▪ He has been beaten, nearly drowned and jailed on numerous occasions - but never actually stopped.
▪ Jerry has been told on numerous occasions if he needs anything, all he has to do is ask.
▪ I have used this service for selling, although more so on the buying side, having been tempted on numerous occasions!
▪ Agents say they met on numerous occasions with Earp in his office in the boiler room.
▪ Since then, he has been late on numerous occasions and we believe his alcohol consumption has increased.
▪ Alan Harding, having worked with me on numerous occasions, knows my limitations and has allowed plenty of time.
▪ The staff had heard it before on numerous occasions but nothing as severe or as noisy as on this particular night.
▪ He was extremely good-looking, and extremely charming, generous to his scout, and to Mr Bullins on numerous occasions.
other
▪ One could cite numerous other passages where both terms are employed, but none is plainer than this one.
▪ But numerous other oil companies and oil-field service firms remain there.
▪ Possible fluctuations of cancer incidence due to sources of radiation are swamped statistically by the numerous other causes.
▪ J., and numerous other gaming properties.
▪ Soon Jedwabne and numerous other names steeped in blood disappeared from the map of permissible remembrance.
▪ We see numerous other tiny warts and also much swirling activity.
▪ It was the same in numerous other industries.
▪ They make numerous other trips as well, visiting Walden Pond and going on a fossil dig, for example.
people
▪ During the dispute, numerous people wrote letters protesting against the Diocese of London's behaviour.
▪ Since that time, numerous people have taken administration jobs despite similar lapses.
▪ The Sisters also visit the elderly and provide a place of quiet for numerous people inside and outside the Parish.
▪ She had been held in high esteem by numerous people who all wanted to pay their respect.
▪ We had now spent three weeks at Aubagne and had seen detachments move off to Castelnaudary, and numerous people rejected.
study
▪ The significance of attitude to work has been highlighted by numerous studies.
▪ The results of numerous studies from around the world clearly show that both genes and the environment influence drinking behavior.
▪ Since then, numerous studies have analysed the relation between serum cholesterol and large bowel cancer.
▪ Any suggestion that this level of care is diminishing is not borne out in the findings of numerous studies.
times
▪ I've also had the wiring checked numerous times and told it was fine.
▪ The elaborate cycle was repeated numerous times as the inaugural address neared.
▪ Coun Thomas said police had been called to the house numerous times.
▪ Simin Karimi, however, has returned to her native Tehran numerous times since the revolution.
▪ The windows of the Methodist Church adjoining the playing field have been broken numerous times.
▪ Peoples has been arrested numerous times since 1978 on drug and theft charges.
▪ The water is flushed through the sheds numerous times, becoming more concentrated with each pass.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Numerous books an movies have dealt with the issue of wife abuse.
▪ I've met Ron on numerous occasions.
▪ I want to thank all the people, too numerous to mention, who've helped me win this election.
▪ The advantages of the discount plan are numerous.
▪ The same problem has occurred before on numerous occasions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was won numerous teaching awards.
▪ His diaries during the years after 1870 record numerous meetings with Sellers there.
▪ How do you privatise a business of numerous loss-makers?
▪ Jackson soon became involved with affirmative action, the November elections and numerous other controversies around the country.
▪ The numerous portraits of her attributed to St Luke show this to be the case.
▪ There are numerous cross-references in the book where apparently different problems reduce to the same theoretical form.
▪ There were numerous arrests and injuries, as well as unconfirmed stories of killings.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Numerous

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; numerous objections.

    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. [1913 Webster] -- Nu"mer*ous*ly, adv. -- Nu"mer*ous*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
numerous

early 15c., from Latin numerosus "numerous," from numerus "a number" (see number (n.)). Related: Numerosity.

Wiktionary
numerous

a. indefinitely large numerically, many.

WordNet
numerous

adj. amounting to a large indefinite number; "numerous times"; "the family was numerous"

Usage examples of "numerous".

Besides the glands, both surfaces of the leaves and the pedicels of the tentacles bear numerous minute papillae, which absorb carbonate of ammonia, an infusion of raw meat, metallic salts, and probably many other substances, but the absorption of matter by these papillae never induces inflection.

Then Don Esteban took from his breast pocket a bundle of thongs tanned the color of acanthus wood, the fringes of which, painted red, were twisted into numerous knots.

There were numerous longer forms of the acronym that indicated the general or specific reason for the restriction, but the simple version often was used as shorthand.

It may be sufficient to observe, that whatever could adorn the dignity of a great capital, or contribute to the benefit or pleasure of its numerous inhabitants, was contained within the walls of Constantinople.

But pray, listen: all human beings who are born, however numerous and of whatever religion, can be saved if only they acknowledge God and live according to the precepts of the Decalog, which forbid committing murder, adultery, theft, and false witness because to do such things is contrary to religion and therefore contrary to God.

Since the decision in that case this Court has been repeatedly called upon to examine the constitutionality of numerous local regulations affecting interstate motor vehicle traffic.

Numerous monks and peasants working afield goggled as I flashed past them, and Brother Vitalis was sweeping the dorter when I lunged in there.

Carnia were up in arms, that numerous bands of robbers had descended from the mountains of Ziccola and Agrapha, and had made their appearance on the other side of the gulf, they resolved to proceed by water to Prevesa, and having presented an order which they had received from Ali Pasha, for the use of his galliot, she was immediately fitted out to convey them.

The Skaldic tribes were numerous, more numerous than the tribes of Alba and Eire, who had united to defeat the Tiberian army, the greatest military force the continent of Europa had ever seen.

The children of such persons are degenerate also, and as the class is numerous and fertile there is here a social problem which is not primarily a problem in alcohol, but is accidentally connected therewith simply because the proneness to alcoholism is a symptom of the degeneracy.

He had never been invited to see this, even though he had been on Algor numerous times.

Animal matter enters into combination with oxygen in precisely the same way as vegetable matter, but as, in addition to carbon and hydrogen, it contains nitrogen, the products of the eremacausis are more numerous, being carbon and nitrate of ammonia, carburetted and sulphuretted hydrogen, and water, and these ammoniacal salts greatly favor the growth of fungi.

The classes excepted were more numerous and far more comprehensive than those excluded from amnesty under the proclamation issued by Mr.

I asked him to dine with me, and without mentioning the name of Madame de la Saone he told his amorous adventures and numerous anecdotes about the pretty women of Berne.

The only furniture was a rickety angareb covered with coarse sacking in which numerous blood-sucking insects had already set up home.