several

Definition

  • adjective: more than two but not very many
  • adjective: separate or distinct from one another
  • synonyms: separate, distinct, particular

Examples

  • After college, we each 'went our several ways'. [=(more commonly) 'went our separate ways'; stopped being together]

  • Both spouses are 'jointly and severally' liable for the tax. [=are liable both together and separately]

  • I haven't read all of her books, but I've read 'several'.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Good evening, sir. (orchestra playing ''On the Beautiful Blue Danube'') Good evening. Hello. (Cal) There are several thousand tons of Hockley steel... ..in this very ship. Then we'll know who to hold accountable if there's a problem. There is the Countess. (..)
    1997 Titanic
  • (..) And these were drawn from life ? That's the good thing about Paris. Lots of girls willing to take their clothes off. You liked this woman. You used her several times. Well, she had beautiful hands, you see ? l think you must have had a love affair with her. No, no, no. (..)
    1997 Titanic