Fewer meaning

fyuər
adjective
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A smaller number.

Some left, fewer stayed.

pronoun
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The comparative of few; a smaller number.

Fewer women wear hats these days.

There are fewer tigers than there were a hundred years ago.

determiner
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Sentence Examples

  • At least for the present, the fewer people who knew, the better.

  • One little girl had fewer presents than the rest, and Helen insisted on sharing her gifts with her.

  • In 2000, Africa had fewer than five million Internet users.

  • Kiera made her way through the crowd to an area with far fewer people.

  • The basement area was considerably larger than Quinn's small cabin lab-room, noticeably so with fewer plants and absent the desk.

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