Several
Several is a word that shows size or number when you can''t be specific or when you want to summarize. If three, four, or five of you hang out, then you''re spending time with several friends.
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Several is a word that shows size or number when you can''t be specific or when you want to summarize. If three, four, or five of you hang out, then you''re spending time with several friends.
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Several is used to refer to an imprecise number of people or things that is not large but is greater than two. I had lived two doors away from this family for several years. Several blue plastic boxes under
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Several definition: Being of a number more than two or three but not many.
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The meaning of SEVERAL is separate or distinct from one another. How to use several in a sentence.
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SEVERAL definition: being more than two but fewer than many in number or kind. See examples of several used in a sentence.
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a. more than a few; an indefinite small number: several people objected. b. (as pronoun; functioning as plural): several of them know.
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Some dictionaries and many older grammars put several into the word class ''pronoun'' in many of its uses. To some speakers, several means "more than one but not very many"; to some
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adj (prenominal) various; separate: the members with their several occupations (prenominal) distinct; different: three several times capable of being dealt with separately; not shared Etymology: 15th
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Several refers to an imprecise number that is more than a few but not many, typically more than two but less than ten. It is used to signify a small number of people or things.
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(Definition of several from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
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