most

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv. 代词 pron. 限定词 det.
中文释义
英 /ˈməʊst/    美 /ˈmoʊst/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The greatest amount. uncountable,usually
    — The most I can offer for the house is $150,000.
  2. The greater part. countable,uncountable,usually
    — Most of the penguins were friendly and curious.
  3. A record-setting amount. countable,usually
    — 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. The greatest; the best. dated,not-comparable,slang
    — 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?
副词 adv.
  1. Forms the superlative of many adjectives. not-comparable
    — This is the most important example.
  2. Almost. US,informal,not-comparable
    — 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 […]
  3. To a great extent or degree; highly; very. not-comparable
    — This is a most unusual specimen.
  4. superlative degree of much form-of,not-comparable,superlative
    — 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.
代词 pron.
  1. The greater part of a group, especially a group of people.
    — Most want the best for their children.
限定词 det.
  1. superlative degree of much. form-of,superlative
    — The teams competed to see who could collect (the) most money.
  2. superlative degree of many: the comparatively largest number of (construed with the definite article) form-of,superlative
    — The team with the most points wins.
  3. superlative degree of many: the majority of; more than half of (construed without the definite article) form-of,superlative
    — Most bakers and dairy farmers have to get up early.

词形变化

moste alternative,obsolete moste alternative,obsolete moste alternative,obsolete moste alternative,obsolete mosts plural moste alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
the majority of
衍生词
aldermost at most at the most at the very most backmost do the most empty barrels make the most noise empty cans make the most noise empty vessels make the most noise empty vessels make the most sound foremost for the most part frontmost hindmost host with the most innermost lookers-on see most of the game make the most of -most most an end most favored nation most favoured nation most like mostly most muscular mostness most of all most of the time most-perfect magic square most Rikki-Tik most significant bit most significant byte most valuable player most vexing parse most wanted mostwhat one-size-fits-most outermost rearmost second most The Most Reverend westermost
相关词
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词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-der.
Proto-Germanic *maiz
Proto-Germanic *maistaz
Proto-Germanic *maist
Proto-West Germanic *maist
Old English mǣst
Middle English
English most
From Middle English most, moste, from Old English mǣst, māst, from Proto-Germanic *maistaz, *maist. Cognate with Scots mast, maist (“most”), Saterland Frisian maast (“most”), West Frisian meast (“most”), Dutch meest (“most”), German meist (“most”), Danish and Swedish mest (“most”), Icelandic mestur (“most”).
词源 2
Reduction of almost.
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