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Definition of Fewer
1. Adjective. (comparative of 'few' used with count nouns) quantifier meaning a smaller number of. "Fewer trains were late"
Definition of Fewer
1. Determiner. The comparative of '''few'''; a smaller number. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fewer
1. few [adj] - See also: few
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fewer
Literary usage of Fewer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1876)
"70, t 157), has fewer leaves from a more slender rootstock, and a nearly rotate
... Seeds much larger and fewer than in the preceding. 3. N. Coulter!, Gray. ..."
2. Studies in History and Jurisprudence by James Bryce Bryce (1901)
"... seem now to claim even fewer votaries in England than they do in France or
Germany, and certainly fewer than they do in the United States. VI. ..."
3. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1905)
"The second and third rooms had fewer children, perhaps forty in each, under
equally favorable conditions. I talked with the children in each room about ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"During the year 1889 there were no fewer than 11,- 904 applicants for licenses
to prepare and sell ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"546 of the present volume. but in no district does It take so high a place as in
Servio, where there are no fewer than 1062 to 1000 inhabitants, ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... of whom no fewer than forty were sons of the Protestant gentry. He held frequent
ordinations, celebrated two Provincial Synods, and was untiring in ..."
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