numbered

1. 1
   adjective

   Marked with numbers or having numbers assigned to its parts, as a list, page, or seat is.

   The auctioneer called out lots from a numbered catalog.

   Voters received numbered ballots so each one could be counted only once.

   Oppositeunnumbered

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of number.

   The clerk numbered each exhibit before the trial began.

   Volunteers numbered the seats ahead of the concert.

   Note

   One spelling carries two quite different verbs. Used intransitively, it reports a total (the crowd numbered nearly a thousand), and that use has no passive. Used transitively, it can mean labeling items in sequence, or reckoning something to be few, as if by fate. Saying someone's days are numbered means their time is limited. Only the transitive uses form a passive with be.

   By evening the crowd numbered nearly a thousand.

   Everyone in the village knew the old mill's days were numbered.

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