Numeral vs Determiner - What's the difference?
numeral | determiner |
A symbol that is not a word and represents a number, such as the Arabic numerals 1, 2, 3 and the Roman numerals I, V, X, L.
(linguistics) A word or symbol representing a number.
* 2002 — Laurie Bauer & Rodney Huddleston, "Lexical word-formation", p1621-1722 in The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language , p1715
(card games) A card whose rank is a number (usually including the ace as 1).
Of or relating to numbers; numerical.
* (John Locke)
(grammar) A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it. Examples of determiners include articles (a, the), demonstratives (this, those), cardinal numbers (three, fifty), and indefinite numerals (most, any, each).
(grammar) A dependent function in a noun phrase marking the NP as definite or indefinite. This function is usually filled by words in the determinative class but may be filled by other elements such as a genitive pronoun.
Something that determines, or helps someone to determine, something else.
* 1901 : Azel Ames, The Mayflower and Her Log
As nouns the difference between numeral and determiner
is that numeral is a symbol that is not a word and represents a number, such as the Arabic numerals 1, 2, 3 and the Roman numerals I, V, X, L while determiner is a member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it. Examples of determiners include articles (a, the), demonstratives (this, those), cardinal numbers (three, fifty), and indefinite numerals (most, any, each).As an adjective numeral
is of or relating to numbers; numerical.numeral
English
(wikipedia numeral)Noun
(en noun)- The word “fifteen”, the Arabic numeral''' “15”, and the Roman '''numeral''' “XV” are all '''numerals representing the number fifteen.
- We use the term numeral' for linguistic expressions and '''number''' for meanings. For example, ''five'' is a '''numeral''' expressing the number "5" - and ''fifteen hundred'' and ''one thousand five hundred'' are different ' numerals expressing the same number, "1,500".
- Jacks, queens, and kings are not numerals .
Quotations
* (English Citations of "numeral")Synonyms
* (word or symbol representing a number) numberDerived terms
* cardinal numeral * ordinal numeral * Arabic numeral * Roman numeralSee also
* digitAdjective
(-)- A long train of numeral progressions.
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English
Noun
(en noun)- The "steel-yards" and "measures" were the only determiners of weight and quantity — as the hour-glass and sun dial were of time — possessed at first (so far as appears) by the passengers of the Pilgrim ship,
