1. A symbol used to represent a number
   "he learned to write the numerals before he went to school";
   - number
    
2. A word expressing a number
   "Numerals may be attributive, as in ‘two dogs’, or pronominal, as in ‘I saw two (of them)’"

1. Of or relating to or denoting numbers
   "a numeral adjective";
   - numerical, numeric

Derived forms: numerals

Type of: content word, open-class word, symbol

Encyclopedia: Numeral