Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: fewer
IPA transcription: [fj'uɚ]
Pronunciations of fewer
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: fewer
    Meaning: (comparative of `few' used with count nouns) quantifier meaning a smaller number of; "fewer birds came this year"; "the birds are fewer this year"; "fewer trains were late"
Usage examples
  • The blood-sucking bats were comparatively few, and the migratory sort fewer still.
  • There are some respectable men of science here, but few literary characters, and fewer artists.
  • From A.D. 1414 up to 1832 no fewer than nineteen widespread outbreaks of this kind have been recorded.
  • There were simple monks and noble abbots; dukes, kings and queens; archbishops and cardinals and no fewer than four Popes.
  • She had seen fewer years than any of us, but she was of such superb Evehood and simplicity that she mothered us from the beginning.
  • This town, which had been built to bar the passage through the strait, had possessed no fewer than four forts as well as several churches.
  • This mode of election rendered a majority more probable; for the fewer the electors are, the greater is the chance of their coming to a final decision.
  • As the positions based on the rule of force become less attractive and fewer men are found willing to fill them, the more will their uselessness be apparent.
  • He drew up some new rules--alterations in the times of going to bed, and so on--the effect of which would be to provide fewer opportunities for the pulling of Varden's ears.
  • However, he was then too hard for them; and, in the several battles that were fought on both sides, he slew not fewer than fifty thousand of the Jews in the interval of six years.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Han dynasty, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Management of multiple sclerosis, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Cattle egret, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Island fox, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Cat, License CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Hillary Clinton, License CC BY-SA 4.0