fewer
determinercommon in dialogue
- United States//ˈfjuː.ɚ//
Less; a smaller amount of something non-integral commonly expressed as an integer
determiner
- 1
Less; a smaller amount of something non-integral commonly expressed as an integer
Leaving from my home in Alameda, the heavily BART-assisted journey took fewer than five hours round trip.
- 2
Also a form of fewcomparative degree of few; a smaller number.
Fewer women wear hats these days.
There are fewer tigers than there were a hundred years ago.
Construction of the station and approach line involved considerable engineering work and the demolition of no fewer than 540 houses and a church, […].
This hypothesis goes by many names, including group resistence, the threshold effect, and the gender paradox. Because the hypothesis holds such wide appeal, it is worth revisiting the logic behind it. The hypothesis is built on the factual observation that fewer females than males act antisocially.
Etymology
From Middle English fewere, equivalent to few + -er.
Forms
- superlative
- fewest
fewer · Less; a smaller amount of something non-integral commonly expressed as an integer
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