few

About 266.54 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. determiner An indefinite, but usually small, number of.

   There are a few cars (=some, but a relatively small number) in the street.

2. determiner 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?

3. determiner Obscuring one to two oktas (eighths) of the sky.

   Tonight: A few clouds. Increasing cloudiness overnight.

4. determiner (US?) Having a 10 percent chance of measurable precipitation (0.01 inch); used interchangeably with isolated.
5. pronoun Few people, few things.

   Many are called, but few are chosen.

Similar words

a couple of a few hardly a road smail low mic minute gef handheld

Often followed by

days years of minutes months weeks hours words moments people

Word family

fewer fewest fewness fewnesses