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fewer

English

Etymology

few +? -er

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?fju??/

Determiner

fewer (superlative fewest)

  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.

Usage notes

Some[*] regard the use of the determiner less with countable quantities to be incorrect, stating that less should indicate only a reduction in uncountable quantity, or in size or significance, leaving fewer to indicate a smaller numerical quantity. For example, they suggest saying less sugar, but fewer people, not less people. Such a rule can allow distinctions such as:

  • Their troubles are fewer than ours, meaning "Their troubles are not so numerous as ours."
  • Their troubles are less than ours, meaning "Their troubles are not so great as ours."

Nevertheless, less has been widely understood and commonly used as a synonym for fewer since it first appeared in Old English as læs.

Translations

See also

  • less

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fewest

English

Pronunciation

Determiner

fewest

  1. superlative degree of few; the smallest number.
    On Sundays, the fewest cars use this street.

Usage notes

  • Fewest is used with plural nouns only. With uncountable nouns, use least. For more information, see fewer.

Antonyms

  • most

Related terms

  • few
  • fewer

Middle English

Determiner

fewest

  1. superlative degree of fewe

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