determiner, pronoun, adjective
determiner, pronoun more than two but not very many:
Several letters arrived this morning. * He's written several books about India. * Several more people than usual came to the meeting. * If you're looking for a photo of Alice you'll find several in here. * Several of the paintings were destroyed in the fire.
adjective (formal) separate:
They said goodbye and went their several ways.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for several is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does several appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — several appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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