several
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
several/ˈsevrəl/
▶determiner & pronoun more than two but not many. ▶adjective
- 1 separate or respective.
- 2 Law applied or regarded separately. Contrasted with joint.
– derivatives
severally adverb.
severally adverb.
– origin ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr., from med. L. separalis, from L. separ ‘separate, different’.
'several' also found in these Oxford entries:
African violet
- aggregate
- aggregate fruit
- agouti
- ailanthus
- air plant
- alligator lizard
- amberjack
- anchovy
- annunciator
- aracari
- archerfish
- arrowhead
- asparagus fern
- astrantia
- atrium
- avens
- average
- babirusa
- baboon
- banana
- band
- bandicoot
- banker
- baobab
- bar-hop
- barracuda
- bass
- bayberry
- be
- beaked whale
- bear
- bearberry
- bearded dragon
- becard
- bedstraw
- beefwood
- bichir
- bindweed
- birdwing
- bittercress
- black bass
- blackboy
- blister beetle
- Bluebeard
- blueberry
- bluegum
- body louse
- booby
- bowerbird
