best

Meanings

Adjective

Adverb

  • Superlative of well
  • To the most advantage; with the most success, cause, profit, benefit, or propriety.

Noun

  • The supreme effort one can make, or has made.
  • One's best behavior.
  • The person (or persons; or thing or things) that is (are) most excellent.

Verb

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Origin

  • From Middle English beste, best, from Old English betst, betest, from Proto-Germanic *batistaz.
  • Shortening of had best

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