Definition of fews Fews
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What does fews mean?
Part of speech
🔤- fews, noun, plural of few.
WordNet
NounPlural: fews |
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| few - a small elite group; "it was designed for the discriminating few" | ||
| elite, elite group a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status | ||
Adjectivefew, fewer, fewest |
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| few - a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `a'; a small but indefinite number; "a few weeks ago"; "a few more wagons than usual"; "an invalid's pleasures are few and far between"; "few roses were still blooming"; "few women have led troops in battle" | ||
| many a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `as' or `too' or `so' or `that'; amounting to a large but indefinite number; "many temptations"; "the temptations are many"; "a good many"; "a great many"; "many directions"; "take as many apples as you like"; "too many clouds to see"; "never saw so many people" | ||
| fewer (comparative of `few' used with count nouns) quantifier meaning a smaller number of; "fewer birds came this year"; "the birds are fewer this year"; "fewer trains were late" | ||
| some relatively many but unspecified in number; "they were here for some weeks"; "we did not meet again for some years" | ||
| numerosity, numerousness, multiplicity a large number | ||
| a couple of, a few more than one but indefinitely small in number; "a few roses"; "a couple of roses" | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- few (superl.)
Not many; small, limited, or confined in number; -- indicating a small portion of units or individuals constituing a whole; often, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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few
More than one, but not as many as usual or as expected.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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few
fū, adj. small in number: not many.—n. Few′ness.—A few, used colloquially for 'a good bit;' A good few, a considerable number; In few=in a few (words), briefly; Some few, an inconsiderable number; The few, the minority. [A.S. féa, pl. féawe; Fr. peu; L. paucus, small.]
Part of speech
🔤- few, noun, singular of fews.
- few, adjective.
