"house number" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: house numbers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} house number (plural house numbers)
  1. The number (street address) assigned to a particular house to distinguish it from other buildings on the same street. Related terms: address, street address, street number Translations (street address): huisnummer [neuter] (Dutch), osoitenumero (Finnish), talonnumero (Finnish), numéro de maison [masculine] (French), Hausnummer [feminine] (German), házszám (Hungarian), numero civico [masculine] (Italian), número de la casa [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-house_number-en-noun-~dnw4kEV Disambiguation of 'street address': 71 29
  2. The physical representation of this number (for example, affixed to the door or painted on a mailbox).
    Sense id: en-house_number-en-noun-5SXl3PD6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 42 58

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for house number meaning in English (2.1kB)

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