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Definition of Narrower
1. n. One who, or that which, narrows or contracts.
Definition of Narrower
1. Adjective. (comparative of narrow) ¹
2. Noun. One who, or that which, narrows. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Narrower
1. narrow [adj] - See also: narrow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Narrower
Literary usage of Narrower
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (2000)
"It is a remarkable river in this: that instead of widening towards its mouth, it
grows narrower; grows narrower and deeper. From the junction of the Ohio to ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"(1) To inscriptions in the narrower sense belong honorific inscriptions and a
large class of eulogies tenu?" °^ Damasus. Partly to this class and partly to ..."
3. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1921)
"Indeed such tyin the violations only are meant, if one speaks of violation of
and in -i -fi narrower On the position of newspaper corre- (1912), pp. ..."
4. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"Such a system is said to be one thing and to change, but only on condition that
each of the elements composing it is one thing in the narrower sense defined ..."
5. Bookbinding for Beginners by Florence Ordway Bean, John C. Brodhead (1914)
"Mounts and pads made by children. never narrower, and always greater than the
top margin. ... 1 In a vertical sheet, wider; in a horizontal sheet, narrower. ..."
6. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"... and then grows gradually thinner and narrower towards the tip Its lower edge
is rounded, and its upper is continued into a membranous crest about one- ..."
7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"PALK (pak) STRAIT, the northern and narrower part of the channel separating Ceylon
from the southeastern coast of India, the southern and wider part being ..."
8. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1876)
"Leaves shorter, only one or two inches long, silvery- silky : scape one to four
inches high: involucro narrower, 7 — 15-flowered (half an inch or more long) ..."
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