numerate

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
13
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈnjuːməɹeɪt/(UK)
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/ˈnjuːməɹeɪt/(UK) · /ˈnuːməɹeɪt/(US) · /ˈnjuːməɹət/(UK) · /ˈnuːməɹət/(US)

Definition of numerate

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To count.
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verb

  1. (transitive)To count.

adj

  1. Having numeracy.
    “In these days when the age of pulse was giving way to the age of tone. When the epoch of analogue (which was to say also of the richness of language, of analogy) was giving way to the digital era, the final victory of the numerate over the literate.”
  2. (not-comparable, obsolete)Numbered; counted.
    “Which Ratification foresaid is granted by Laurence Lord Oliphant and his Foresaids upon the saids Earle’s paying in numerate Money to the said Lord at the Date thereof the Sum of Twenty Nine Thousand Seven Hunder and 24 Mercks Scots […]”
    “Now if the Monads are equall in number to all numerate things, of which the word One is prædicated, by participation of which Monads every particular is ſaid to be one, there will be infinite Monads thus participated.”
    “Whereas Patrick Hepburn of Kingſton, in the county of Haddington, hath advanced to us, by the hands of Col. Lauchlan Maclauchlan of that Ilk, the ſum of 740 l. Sterling, in numerate money of Britain; […]”

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Etymology

From Latin numerātus, perfect past participle of numerō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix, of participial origin)). By surface analysis, Latin numerus + -ate.

Anagrams of numerate

3 plays · some not in Scrabble

Words you can make from numerate

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6-letter words

16 words

5-letter words

36 words

4-letter words

55 words

3-letter words

52 words

2-letter words

21 words

Hooks

3 extensions · 1 front · 2 back

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