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Definition
adj (English)
1. (slang, dated) The greatest; the best.Examples: "PATTY:They announced this year's nominees for student council. And guess who's up for vice-president? Me! Isn't that the most to say the least?"datednot-comparableslang
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) The greatest amount.Examples: "The most I can offer for the house is $150,000."uncountableusually
2. (countable, uncountable) The greater part.Examples: "Most of the penguins were friendly and curious."; "Most of the rice was spoiled."; "At half-past nine on this Saturday evening the parlor of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for the select circle—a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening for a pipe and a cheerful glass."countableuncountableusually
3. (countable) A record-setting amount.Examples: "Along with their massive size will come other “mosts”: they will likely be the longest living, the best educated, the wealthiest and the most wired/ wireless."; "Virginia had a number of "mosts” that made it appealing, if not representative of all Confederate states: the most citizens among the Southern states; the most slaves; the most men under arms; the most famous Southern generals; the most fighting within its borders; the most divided by the war (what other Southern state lost a quarter of its territory and saw a new state created out of that former territory?); and the most damaged by the war."; "The record of Elvis' achievement is truly remarkable; his list of “firsts” and “mosts” is probably without parallel in music and entertainment history."countableusually
adv (English)
1. (informal, chiefly US) Almost.Examples: "A well-daiquiried redhead eyed him from across the room at Jilly's one night in 1963 — although it could have been most any night ever […]"; ""We walked there most every day after school.""; "“Can't be all that bad if Luke likes it. Most everywhere has air-conditioning, he says.”"USinformalnot-comparable
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