most

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Енглески

Википедија

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Средњи Енглески most, moste, from Стари Енглески mǣst, māst, from Proto-Germanic *maistaz, *maist. Cognate with Шкотски mast, maist (“most”), Saterland Frisian maast (“most”), West Frisian meast (“most”), Холандски meest (“most”), Немачки meist (“most”), Дански and Шведски mest (“most”), Исландски mestur (“most”).

Alternative forms

Determiner

most

  1. Шаблон:superlative of.
    The teams competed to see who could collect (the) most money.
  2. Шаблон:superlative of: the comparatively largest number of (construed with the definite article)
    The team with the most points wins.
  3. Шаблон:superlative of: the majority of; more than half of (construed without the definite article)
    Most bakers and dairy farmers have to get up early.
    Winning was not important for most participants.
Synonyms
  • (superlative of much): more than half of (in meaning, not grammar), almost all
  • (superlative of many): the majority of (in meaning, not grammar)
Translations

Adverb

most (not comparable)

  1. Forms the superlative of many adjectives.
    This is the most important example.
    Correctness is most important.
    • Шаблон:RQ:Maxwell Mirror and the Lamp
    • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest‎[1]:
      “[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes […] . And then, when you see [the senders], you probably find that they are the most melancholy old folk with malignant diseases. […]”
    Антоним: least
  2. To a great extent or degree; highly; very.
    This is a most unusual specimen.
  3. Шаблон:en-superlative of
  4. Шаблон:en-superlative of
    • 2013 август 3, “Boundary Problems”, in The Economist‎[3], volume 408, number 8847:
      Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.
    Антоним: least
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Pronoun

most

  1. The greater part of a group, especially a group of people.
    Most want the best for their children.
    The peach was juicier and more flavourful than most.
Synonyms

Noun

most (usually uncountable, plural mosts)

  1. (uncountable) The greatest amount.
    The most I can offer for the house is $150,000.
  2. (countable, uncountable) The greater part.
    Most of the penguins were friendly and curious.
    Most of the rice was spoiled.
  3. (countable) A record-setting amount.
    • 2001, George Barna, Real Teens: A Contemporary Snapshot of Youth Culture, →ISBN, strana 15:
      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.
    • 2002, John Gregory Selby, Virginians at War: The Civil War Experiences of Seven Young Confederates, →ISBN, strana xvii:
      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.
    • 2007, Joe Moscheo, The Gospel Side of Elvis, →ISBN:
      The record of Elvis' achievement is truly remarkable; his list of “firsts” and “mosts” is probably without parallel in music and entertainment history.


Translations
Usage notes
  • In the sense of record, used when the positive denotation of best does not apply.

Etymology 2

Reduction of almost.

Adverb

most (not comparable)

  1. (informal, chiefly US) Almost.
    • 1998, Bill Zehme, The Way You Wear Your Hat: And the Lost Art of Livin' (page 181)
      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 […]
    • 2000, Jewish Baltimore: A Family Album →ISBN, page 159:
      "We walked there most every day after school."
    • 2011, Charlotte Maclay, Wanted: A Dad to Brag About, →ISBN:
      “Can't be all that bad if Luke likes it. Most everywhere has air-conditioning, he says.”
Translations
almost — see almost

References

  • most at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

From Латински mustum.

Pronunciation

Noun

most m (plural mosts or mostos)

  1. must (fruit juice that will ferment or has fermented)

Further reading

Czech

Чешки Википедија има чланак на:
Википедија cs

Etymology

From Old Czech most, from Прасловенски *mostъ (“bridge”).

Pronunciation

Noun

most m inan

  1. bridge

Declension

Деклинација
singular plural
nominative most mosty
genitive mostu mostů
dative mostu mostům
accusative most mosty
vocative moste mosty
locative mostě mostech
instrumental mostem mosty

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

  • most in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • most in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From Латински mustum.

Pronunciation

Noun

most m (uncountable, diminutive mostje n)

  1. must (unfermented or partially fermented mashed grapes or rarely other fruits, an early stage in the production of wine)

Friulian

Etymology

From Латински mustum.

Noun

Шаблон:fur-noun

  1. must (unfermented grape juice or wine)

Hungarian

Etymology

From the earlier ma (“now”), which in modern Hungarian means “today” + -st. For the suffix, compare valamelyest.[1]

Pronunciation

Adverb

most

  1. now

Declension

It can be suffixed from its variant mostan: mostantól (“from now on”), mostanra (“by now”), mostanig (“until now”), or the latter more commonly formed with -a-, mostanáig (“until now”).

Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ Gábor Zaicz, Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete, Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN

Further reading

  • most in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Lower Sorbian

Noun

most m (diminutive mosćik)

  1. superseded spelling of móst.

Declension

Шаблон:dsb-decl-noun-18

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

most

  1. Alternative form of must

Etymology 2

Verb

most

  1. second-person singular present indicative of moten (“to have to”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Норвешки Википедија има чланак на:
Википедија no

Etymology

From Middle Low German most, must, from Латински mustum

Noun

most m (definite singular mosten, indefinite plural moster, definite plural mostene)

  1. must, (unfermented) fruit juice, particularly grape juice

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German most, must, from Латински mustum

Noun

most m (definite singular mosten, indefinite plural mostar, definite plural mostane)

  1. must, (unfermented) fruit juice, particularly grape juice

References

Old High German

Etymology

Borrowed from Латински mustum.

Noun

most m

  1. must

Descendants

  • Немачки: Most

Polish

Пољски Википедија има чланак на:
Википедија pl
most

Etymology

Inherited from Прасловенски *mȍstъ (“bridge”).

Pronunciation

Noun

most m inan (diminutive mościk, augmentative mościsko)

  1. bridge Галицијски

Declension

declension of most
singular plural
nominative most mosty
genitive mostu mostów
dative mostowi mostom
accusative most mosty
instrumental mostem mostami
locative moście mostach
vocative moście mosty

Derived terms

adjective
adverb
nouns
verb
phrase

Further reading

  • most in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • most in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Прасловенски *mostъ (“bridge”).

Pronunciation

Noun

mȏst m (Ћирилица правопис мо̑ст)

  1. bridge (construction or natural feature that spans a divide)

Declension

Деклинација од most
singular plural
nominative mȏst mòstovi
genitive mȍsta mostova
dative mostu mostovima
accusative most mostove
vocative moste mostovi
locative mostu mostovima
instrumental mostom mostovima

Derived terms

Slovak

Etymology

From Прасловенски *mostъ (“bridge”).

Pronunciation

Noun

most m (genitive singular mosta, nominative plural mosty, genitive plural mostov, declension pattern of dub)

  1. bridge

Declension

Declension of most
singular plural
nominative most mosty
genitive mosta mostov
dative mostu mostom
accusative most mosty
locative moste mostoch
instrumental mostom mostami

Derived terms

Further reading

  • most in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Slovene

Etymology

From Прасловенски *mostъ (“bridge”).

Pronunciation

Noun

mọ̑st m inan

  1. bridge (construction or natural feature that spans a divide)

Inflection

Шаблон:sl-decl-noun-table2

Деклинација од móst (masculine inan., hard o-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative móst mósta mósti
accusative móst mósta móste
genitive mósta móstov móstov
dative móstu móstoma móstom
locative móstu móstih móstih
instrumental móstom móstoma mósti

Volapük

Noun

most (nominative plural mosts)

  1. monster

Declension

declension of most
singular plural
nominative most mosts
genitive mosta mostas
dative moste mostes
accusative mosti mostis
predicative mostu mostus
vocative o most! o mosts!
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