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fewer

pronoun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈfjuː.ɚ/

det

Etymology: From Middle English fewere, equivalent to few + -er.

  1. comparative degree of few; a smaller number.

    Fewer women wear hats these days.

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

  2. Less; a smaller amount of something non-integral commonly expressed as an integer

    Leaving from my home in Alameda, the heavily BART-assisted journey took fewer than five hours round trip.