Definitions for few

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few few

Spelling: [fyoo]

IPA: /fyu/

Few is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 11 anagrams from letters in few (efw).

Definitions for few

noun

1. (used with a plural verb) a small number or amount:
2. the few, a special, limited number; the minority:

Idioms

1. few and far between, at widely separated intervals; infrequent:
2. quite a few, a fairly large number; many:

pronoun

1. (used with a plural verb) a small number of persons or things:

adjective

1. not many but more than one:

Origin of few

before 900; Middle English fewe, Old English fēawe; cognate with Gothic fawai; akin to Latin paucus few, paulus little, pauper poor, Greek paûros little, few

Examples for few

Or, if I'd only got tied up in some way for a few weeks—something I could tide over.

Sputtering, I manage a few “hut-hut-huts” with the other students.

So small was it that to have gone a few feet to either side would have been to miss it.

They were both silent for a few moments; and Eudora's countenance was troubled.

Like many Americans—but few Republican presidential candidates—the former Florida governor has evolved on the issue.

So it might be me projecting my desires onto Archer to want to just get away from work for a few weeks.

We do see that a few European countries have them on the books: Germany, Poland, Italy, Ireland, a couple more.

Here we see but a few of the last links, and those imperfectly.

I can get along for a few hours, and then I'll have a doctor look at it.

A few days later, Bush replied, “We will uphold the law in Florida.”