fewer
det/ˈfjuː.ɚ/US
Etymology
From Middle English fewere, equivalent to few + -er.
- inherited from fewere
Definitions
comparative degree of few
comparative 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, […].
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for fewer. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA