few

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determiner

fewerlessfewestleast

1.
(preceded by another determiner) An indefinite, but usually small, number of.
There are a few cars (=some, but a relatively small number) in the street.
Quite a few people (=a significant number) were pleasantly surprised.
I think he's had a few drinks.
The few cheapest hotels I could find are the farthest too.
2.
(used alone) Not many; a small (in comparison with another number stated or implied) but somewhat indefinite number of.
Very few did she have not to go there, did she?
I was expecting a big crowd at the party, but very few people (=almost none) turned up.
3.
(meteorology, of clouds) Obscuring one to two oktas (eighths) of the sky.
Tonight: A few clouds. Increasing cloudiness overnight.
NOAA definition of the term few clouds: An official sky cover classification for aviation weather observations, descriptive of a sky cover of 1/8 to 2/8. This is applied only when obscuring phenomena aloft are present--that is, not when obscuring phenomena are surface-based, such as fog.
4.
(meteorology, of rainfall with regard to a location) (US?) Having a 10 percent chance of measurable precipitation (0.01 inch); used interchangeably with isolated.

pronoun

1.
Few people, few things.
Many are called, but few are chosen.

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Đồng nghĩa

littlelittle see usage

Trái nghĩa

many

Cùng gốc / liên quan

a fair fewa fewa few clowns short of a circusa few fries short of a Happy Meala few roos loose in the top paddocka few spanners short of a tool boxa good fewcover-fewfew and far betweenfew cards short of a full deckfew cards shy of a full deckfew-flowered sedgefewfoldfewlyfewnessfew sandwiches short of a picnicfew-shotfew-shot learninghave a fewhave a few too many

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Middle English fewe, from Old English fēaw (few), from *fau, from Proto-Germanic *fawaz (few), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (few, small).