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Definition 2024

quite_a_few

quite a few

English

Determiner

quite a few

An indefinite and somewhat large number; more than a few; a fair number of.
I've watched quite a few basketball games in my time.

Translations

indefinite and somewhat large number

Bashkir: байтаҡ ‎(baytaq), күп кенә ‎(küp kenä)
Catalan: bastant (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 好幾 (zh), 好几 (zh) ‎(hǎojǐ)
Finnish: aika moni (fi), melko moni (fi)
French: pas mal de (fr)
Greek: αρκετός (el) ‎(arketós)
Italian: un bel po'
Japanese: 少なからぬ ‎(sukunakaranu), かなりの ‎(kanari no)

Macedonian: не баш малку ‎(ne baš malku)
Russian: не так уж мало ‎(ne tak už malo), дово́льно мно́го ‎(dovólʹno mnógo)
Scots: a guid pickle
Spanish: bastante (es)
Swedish: ganska många

Noun

quite a few ‎(uncountable)

An indefinite and somewhat large number.
- 2016, Walter Laqueur, Worlds Ago: A Memoir of My Journeying Years
  About a third, perhaps more, were killed in the war; of the survivors quite a few were wounded, some severely.

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