umpteen
/ˈʌmp.tiːn/
umpteen determiner: relatively large but unspecified in number.
Determiner
umpteen
- Relatively large but unspecified in number.
- She's taking umpteen friends with her to the party.
- We still claim a population of over 300,000 based on the new city directory, and that chief of the census who threw out umpteen thousand names on us this spring can’t put his name on our slipboard any more.1911, O.E. Shannon, edited by J.W. Hays, The Typographical Journal, volume XXXVVIII, number 4, page 439
umpteen meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
umpteen in Tamil
- ஏராளமான, கணக்கற்ற, நிறைய
umpteen in Urdu
- ان گنت, بہت سے, کئی, لاتعداد
umpteen in Malayalam
- countless, innumerable, numerous
- കണക്കില്ലാത്ത, കണക്കറ്റ, എണ്ണമില്ലാത്ത, നിരവധി, അസംഖ്യാത, സംഖ്യയില്ലാത്ത
umpteen in Kannada
- ಬಹಳ, ತುಂಬ, ಅನೇಕ, ಬಹುಸಂಖ್ಯೆಯ
Origin of umpteen
From ump (“a colloquial name for the dash "—" in Morse code”) + -teen. Unrelated to ump as in umpire, and simply a mnemonic rhyming aid.
Words formed from umpteen
Words that rhyme with umpteen
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- glean
- between
- byzantine
- canteen
- greene
- preen
- Racine
- careen
- intervene
- lean
- wean
- Christine
- obscene
- routine
- skene
- spleen
- submarine
- cuisine
- gasoline
- irene
- red bean
- serene
- -ene
- baleen
- demean
- eleventeen
- fascine
- gombeen
- latrine
- pristine
- Qazvin
- sheen
- tangerine
- unclean
- unseen
- vaccine
- amine
- aquamarine
- Beane
- beseen
- bottine
- chopine
- Enigma machine
- Eugene
- gene
- in between
- internecine
- jean
Questions about umpteen
- What does umpteen mean?
- Umpteen means relatively large but unspecified in number.
- What is umpteen in Tamil?
- Umpteen in Tamil is ஏராளமான, கணக்கற்ற, நிறைய. See Umpteen meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is umpteen?
- Umpteen is a determiner.
- How do you pronounce umpteen?
- Umpteen is pronounced /ˈʌmp.tiːn/ (UK).
Words near umpteen in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: umpteen (page history and authors); umpteen (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); umpteen (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); umpteen (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); umpteen (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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