Definition of "few"

few

/fjuː/

determiner
comparative fewer or less, superlative fewest or least
1. (preceded by another determiner) An indefinite, but usually small, number of.
  Quotations
  No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.
  2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
2. (used alone) Not many; a small (in comparison with another number stated or implied) but somewhat indefinite number of.
  Quotations
  Your men are valiant but their number few,And cannot terrifie his mightie hoſt, […]
  c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, Act III, scene iii
3. (meteorology, of clouds) Obscuring one to two oktas (eighths) of the sky.
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.

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