most
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: mōst, МФА(кључ): /ˈməʊst/
- (General American) enPR: mōst, МФА(кључ): /ˈmoʊst/
Audio (US) (file) - Риме: -əʊst
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
- moste (obsolete)
Determiner
most
- Шаблон:superlative of.
- The teams competed to see who could collect (the) most money.
- Шаблон:superlative of: the comparatively largest number of (construed with the definite article)
- The team with the most points wins.
- 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
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Adverb
most (not comparable)
- 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
- To a great extent or degree; highly; very.
- This is a most unusual specimen.
- 1750, Thomas Morell (lyrics), George Frideric Handel (music), “'Theodora'”[2]:
- Most cruel edict! Sure, thy generous soul, Septimius, abhors the dreadful task of persecution.
- Шаблон:RQ:Melville Moby-Dick
- Шаблон:RQ:Wells Time Machine
- Шаблон:en-superlative of
- 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
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Pronoun
most
- 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
- (greater part): the majority
Noun
most (usually uncountable, plural mosts)
- (uncountable) The greatest amount.
- The most I can offer for the house is $150,000.
- (countable, uncountable) The greater part.
- Most of the penguins were friendly and curious.
- Most of the rice was spoiled.
- Шаблон:RQ:Besant Ivory Gate
- Шаблон:RQ:Allingham China Governess
- 2013 август 16, John Vidal, “Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, strana 8:
- Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.
- (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.
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Usage notes
Etymology 2
Reduction of almost.
Adverb
most (not comparable)
- (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.”
- 1998, Bill Zehme, The Way You Wear Your Hat: And the Lost Art of Livin' (page 181)
Translations
References
- most at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
most m (plural mosts or mostos)
- must (fruit juice that will ferment or has fermented)
Further reading
- “most” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “most” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “most” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “most” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Czech
Etymology
From Old Czech most, from Прасловенски *mostъ (“bridge”).
Pronunciation
Noun
most m inan
Declension
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
Pronunciation
Noun
most m (uncountable, diminutive mostje n)
- must (unfermented or partially fermented mashed grapes or rarely other fruits, an early stage in the production of wine)
Friulian
Etymology
Noun
- 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
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
- ↑ 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)
Declension
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
most
- Alternative form of must
Etymology 2
Verb
most
- second-person singular present indicative of moten (“to have to”)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Middle Low German most, must, from Латински mustum
Noun
most m (definite singular mosten, indefinite plural moster, definite plural mostene)
- 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)
- must, (unfermented) fruit juice, particularly grape juice
References
- “most” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old High German
Etymology
Borrowed from Латински mustum.
Noun
most m
Descendants
- Немачки: Most
Polish

Etymology
Inherited from Прасловенски *mȍstъ (“bridge”).
Pronunciation
Noun
most m inan (diminutive mościk, augmentative mościsko)
- bridge Галицијски
Declension
Derived terms
- mościć impf
- palić za sobą mosty impf
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)
- bridge (construction or natural feature that spans a divide)
Declension
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)
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- most in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk
Slovene
Etymology
From Прасловенски *mostъ (“bridge”).
Pronunciation
Noun
mọ̑st m inan
- bridge (construction or natural feature that spans a divide)
Inflection
Volapük
Noun
most (nominative plural mosts)
Declension
- Енглески говор
- Енглески 1-слог речи
- Енглески термини са ИПА изговором
- Енглески појмови са аудио везама
- Риме:Енглески/əʊst
- Риме:Енглески/əʊst/1 слог
- Енглески изрази наслеђени од Средњи Енглески
- Енглески појмови изведени из Средњи Енглески
- Енглески изрази наслеђени од Стари Енглески
- Енглески појмови изведени из Стари Енглески
- Енглески изрази наслеђени од Proto-Germanic
- Енглески појмови изведени из Proto-Germanic
- Proto-Germanic црвене везе
- Proto-Germanic црвене везе/м
- Енглески determiner
- Енглески terms with usage examples
- Арапски црвене везе
- Арапски црвене везе/т
- Gothic црвене везе
- Gothic црвене везе/т
- Terms with manual transliterations different from the automated ones
- Terms with manual transliterations different from the automated ones/yi
- Енглески прилози
- Енглески неупоредиви прилози
- Енглески термини са наводима
- Арапски црвене везе/т+
- Дански црвене везе
- Дански црвене везе/т+
- Дански црвене везе/т
- Македонски црвене везе
- Македонски црвене везе/т
- Захтеви за преиспитивање Словенски преводи
- Енглески pronoun
- Енглески леме
- Енглески именице
- Енглески непребројиве именице
- Енглески бројевне именице
- Енглески uncountable nouns
- Енглески countable nouns
- Енглески informal terms
- English degree adverbs
- Каталонски изрази наслеђени од Латински
- Каталонски појмови изведени из Латински
- Каталонски 1-слог речи
- Каталонски термини са ИПА изговором
- Каталонски леме
- Каталонски именице
- Чешки изрази наслеђени од Old Czech
- Чешки појмови изведени из Old Czech
- Чешки изрази наслеђени од Прасловенски
- Чешки појмови изведени из Прасловенски
- Чешки термини са ИПА изговором
- Чешки појмови са аудио везама
- Чешки леме
- Чешки именице
- Чешки masculine именице
- cs:Bridges
- Холандски појмови изведени из Латински
- Холандски термини са ИПА изговором
- Риме:Холандски/ɔst
- Холандски појмови са аудио везама
- Холандски леме
- Холандски именице
- Dutch uncountable nouns
- Friulian изрази наслеђени од Латински
- Friulian појмови изведени из Латински
- Мађарски adverbs suffixed with -st
- Мађарски термини са ИПА изговором
- Мађарски појмови са аудио везама
- Риме:Мађарски/oʃt
- Риме:Мађарски/oʃt/1 слог
- Мађарски adverb
- Hungarian temporal location adverbs
- Lower Sorbian nouns
- Lower Sorbian masculine nouns
- Енглески superseded forms
- Језички код недостаје/deftempboiler
- Средњи Енглески noun
- Средњи Енглески verb form
- Средњи Енглески second-person singular forms
- Norwegian Bokmål појмови изведени из Middle Low German
- Norwegian Bokmål појмови изведени из Латински
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk појмови изведени из Middle Low German
- Norwegian Nynorsk појмови изведени из Латински
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns
- Old High German термини позајмљени од Латински
- Old High German појмови изведени из Латински
- Old High German noun
- Пољски изрази наслеђени од Прасловенски
- Пољски појмови изведени из Прасловенски
- Пољски термини са ИПА изговором
- Пољски појмови са аудио везама
- Риме:Пољски/ɔst
- Риме:Пољски/ɔst/1 слог
- Пољски леме
- Пољски именице
- Polish masculine nouns
- pl:Bridges
- pl:Buildings
- Српско-Хрватски изрази наслеђени од Прасловенски
- Српско-Хрватски појмови изведени из Прасловенски
- Српско-Хрватски термини са ИПА изговором
- Српски леме
- Српски именице
- Српски masculine именице
- Словачки изрази наслеђени од Прасловенски
- Словачки појмови изведени из Прасловенски
- Словачки термини са ИПА изговором
- Словачки леме
- Словачки именице
- Словачки masculine nouns
- Словенски изрази наслеђени од Прасловенски
- Словенски појмови изведени из Прасловенски
- Словенски 1-слог речи
- Словенски термини са ИПА изговором
- Словенски леме
- Словенски именице
- Requests for accents in Slovene entries
- Slovene masculine nouns
- Slovene masculine inanimate nouns
- Slovene masculine hard o-stem nouns
- Volapük леме
- Volapük именице