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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unnumbered
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ stacks of unnumbered U.S. currency
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Each book contains an unnumbered introductory unit teaching the complete phonemic alphabet and this is constantly revised and practised throughout both levels.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unnumbered

Unnumbered \Un*num"bered\, a. Not numbered; not counted or estimated; innumerable.
--Dryden.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unnumbered

late 14c., from un- (1) "not" + past participle of number (v.).

Wiktionary
unnumbered

a. 1 Not identified with a number 2 Too numerous to be counted; countless or innumerable

WordNet
unnumbered

adj. too numerous to be counted; "incalculable riches"; "countless hours"; "an infinite number of reasons"; "innumerable difficulties"; "the multitudinous seas"; "myriad stars"; "untold thousands" [syn: countless, infinite, innumerable, innumerous, myriad(a), multitudinous, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumerable]

Usage examples of "unnumbered".

What were these uncomprehended, new emotions stirring in his hard soul, tempered by war and by unnumbered stern adventurings?

His boots trod again a damp crackling mast, razorshells, squeaking pebbles, that on the unnumbered pebbles beats, wood sieved by the shipworm, lost Armada.

And around The sky was in garlands of cloud, Winning scents from unnumbered new births, Pointed buds, where the woods were browned By a mouldered beechen shroud.

Unnumbered orphan from the slums of Berlinsome contemporaries swore Leander hadn't known how to read until he'd designed Bohr's Maker.

Nikko glanced down its path, to see the familiar starfield that had lam ahead of the ship for almost two hundred years, unnumbered suns fronting the dark wall of a giant molecular cloud, and at the center, the navigation beacon he had followed since Deception Well: the white-hot star, Alpha Cygni, now only two years away.

So did the employees of the Ademian Enterprises, Incorporated, Plant #1 and Plant #1 Annex, as they all were given a paid day off in order that they might attend the huge, raucous outdoor wedding receptions and gorge on Armenian foods, American barbecue, and Brunswick stew, with unnumbered gallons of draft beer to wash it all down.

This farmhouse, several miles northwest of Romeo on an unnumbered gravel road, had a battered old rural delivery mailbox out front with the name Gait on it, but gave the impression of having been deserted for at least a few years.

I spoke one night to Luscinda, I told her all that had occurred, as I did also to her father, entreating him to allow some delay, and to defer the disposal of her hand until I should see what the Duke Ricardo sought of me: he gave me the promise, and she confirmed it with vows and swoonings unnumbered.

For when there is no contest at home, unnumbered knaves will be found at Rome to dig up contests out of the earth and assail livings at their will.

It was the piping of unnumbered whippoorwills, and in their shrill chorus there seemed to lurk a note of tense and evil expectancy.