WordNet: few
a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `a'; a small but indefinite number; "a few weeks ago"; "a few more wagons than usual"; "an invalid's pleasures are few and far between"; "few roses were still blooming"; "few women have led troops in battle"
- also see fewer
- also see some
- attribute multiplicity, numerosity, numerousness
- similar to a couple of, a few
- similar to hardly a
few
- (englanti) many (antonym)
- (englanti) fewness (derivationally related)