See backest on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "back",
"3": "est",
"nocat": "1"
},
"expansion": "back + -est",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "back + -est",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "superlative adjective"
},
"expansion": "backest",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Phonetics",
"orig": "en:Phonetics",
"parents": [
"Linguistics",
"Language",
"Social sciences",
"Communication",
"Sciences",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "Martin J. Ball and Nicole Müller (2005), Phonetics for communication disorders, p. 56",
"text": "He set up two anchor points for his system using articulatory criteria: cardinal vowel 1 was the highest, frontest vowel that one could make without the sound becoming a consonant, and cardinal vowel 5 was the lowest, backest vowel one could produce without pulling the tongue back into the pharynx."
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"extra": "most back",
"word": "back"
}
],
"glosses": [
"superlative form of back: most back"
],
"id": "en-backest-en-adj-spEKlx-V",
"links": [
[
"phonetics",
"phonetics"
],
[
"back",
"back#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(phonetics) superlative form of back: most back"
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"superlative"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"phonetics",
"phonology",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"word": "backest"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "back",
"3": "est",
"nocat": "1"
},
"expansion": "back + -est",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "back + -est",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "backest",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "10 90",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "7 93",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 96",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "back"
}
],
"glosses": [
"second-person singular simple present indicative of back"
],
"id": "en-backest-en-verb-6l~18lH4",
"links": [
[
"back",
"back#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) second-person singular simple present indicative of back"
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"form-of",
"indicative",
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
}
],
"word": "backest"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "backest",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "German entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "backen"
}
],
"glosses": [
"second-person singular subjunctive I of backen"
],
"id": "en-backest-de-verb-Jy86SifU",
"links": [
[
"backen",
"backen#German"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"second-person",
"singular",
"subjunctive-i"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "De-backest.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a5/De-backest.ogg/De-backest.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/De-backest.ogg"
}
],
"word": "backest"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English superlative adjectives",
"English verb forms",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "back",
"3": "est",
"nocat": "1"
},
"expansion": "back + -est",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "back + -est",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "superlative adjective"
},
"expansion": "backest",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English superlative adjectives",
"en:Phonetics"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "Martin J. Ball and Nicole Müller (2005), Phonetics for communication disorders, p. 56",
"text": "He set up two anchor points for his system using articulatory criteria: cardinal vowel 1 was the highest, frontest vowel that one could make without the sound becoming a consonant, and cardinal vowel 5 was the lowest, backest vowel one could produce without pulling the tongue back into the pharynx."
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"extra": "most back",
"word": "back"
}
],
"glosses": [
"superlative form of back: most back"
],
"links": [
[
"phonetics",
"phonetics"
],
[
"back",
"back#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(phonetics) superlative form of back: most back"
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"superlative"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"phonetics",
"phonology",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"word": "backest"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English superlative adjectives",
"English verb forms",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "back",
"3": "est",
"nocat": "1"
},
"expansion": "back + -est",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "back + -est",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "backest",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English second-person singular forms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "back"
}
],
"glosses": [
"second-person singular simple present indicative of back"
],
"links": [
[
"back",
"back#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) second-person singular simple present indicative of back"
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"form-of",
"indicative",
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
}
],
"word": "backest"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "backest",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"German entries with incorrect language header",
"German non-lemma forms",
"German verb forms",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "backen"
}
],
"glosses": [
"second-person singular subjunctive I of backen"
],
"links": [
[
"backen",
"backen#German"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"second-person",
"singular",
"subjunctive-i"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "De-backest.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a5/De-backest.ogg/De-backest.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/De-backest.ogg"
}
],
"word": "backest"
}
Download raw JSONL data for backest meaning in All languages combined (3.0kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-17 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (ca09fec and c40eb85). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.