Numidians is an English word. Below you'll find 5 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Numidians meaning
plural of Numidian
Using Numidians
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of Numidian
- In the example corpus, numidians often appears in combinations such as: the numidians.
Context around Numidians
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 3 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Numidians
- In this selection, "numidians" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, western, attacked and took stand out and add context to how "numidians" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include aim the numidians in the and and the numidians attacked the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "numidians" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with numidians
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Numidians took the opportunity to capture and plunder Carthaginian territory. (11 words)
The main native supporter of the Carthaginians, king Syphax of the Massaesylians (western Numidians), was defeated and taken prisoner. (19 words)
While Hamilcar was able to obtain the resources for his aim, the Numidians in the Atlas Mountains were not conquered, like Hanno suggested, but became vassals of Carthage. (28 words)
As a result of this victory, the heterogeneous force of insurgent Gauls, Africans, Iberians and Numidians had more military equipment than they could use themselves and sold the surplus via Egyptian traders to the Romans. (35 words)
Hannibal's Iberian and Gallic heavy cavalry, led by Hanno on the left, defeated the Roman heavy cavalry, and then both the Carthaginian heavy cavalry and the Numidians attacked the legions from behind. (33 words)
While Hamilcar was able to obtain the resources for his aim, the Numidians in the Atlas Mountains were not conquered, like Hanno suggested, but became vassals of Carthage. (28 words)
Example sentences (5)
As a result of this victory, the heterogeneous force of insurgent Gauls, Africans, Iberians and Numidians had more military equipment than they could use themselves and sold the surplus via Egyptian traders to the Romans.
Hannibal's Iberian and Gallic heavy cavalry, led by Hanno on the left, defeated the Roman heavy cavalry, and then both the Carthaginian heavy cavalry and the Numidians attacked the legions from behind.
The main native supporter of the Carthaginians, king Syphax of the Massaesylians (western Numidians), was defeated and taken prisoner.
The Numidians took the opportunity to capture and plunder Carthaginian territory.
While Hamilcar was able to obtain the resources for his aim, the Numidians in the Atlas Mountains were not conquered, like Hanno suggested, but became vassals of Carthage.
Common combinations with numidians
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: