fewer
FYOO-ur/ˈfjuː.ɚ/UKFYOO-uh/ˈfjuː.ə/
Often confused with less
- 1Comparative of few.
No fewer than three hundred people signed the petition in its first hour.
Fewer students take the bus now that the new bike path is open.
Note
A regular comparative, few plus -er, already fewere in Middle English, and it completes the set few, fewer, fewest. It goes before plural nouns that can be counted, fewer tigers, fewer houses, and it usually brings than to name the comparison. The fixed phrase no fewer than turns it around to stress that a number is large: no fewer than 540 houses.
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Origin
From Middle English fewere, equivalent to few + -er.