fewer
pronoun
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Pronunciation: /ˈfjuː.ɚ/
det
Etymology: From Middle English fewere, equivalent to few + -er.
- comparative degree of few; a smaller number.
“Fewer women wear hats these days.”
“There are fewer tigers than there were a hundred years ago.”
- 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.”