See best on Wiktionary
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "worst"
},
{
"tags": [
"nonstandard"
],
"word": "baddest"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "accidents will happen in the best regulated families"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "alderbest"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "as best as one can"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "at one's best"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "attack is the best form of defence"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "attack is the best form of defense"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "at the best"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "at the best of times"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best and fairest"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best ball"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best before date"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best-before date"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best bet"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best bib and tucker"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best bitter"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best bower"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best boy"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best-by date"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best-case"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best-case scenario"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best case scenario"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best efforts"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "bester"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "bestest"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best evidence rule"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best form lens"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best friend"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best friend forever"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best gal"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best girl"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best in class"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best-kept secret"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "Best Korea"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best laid plans"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best maid"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best man"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "bestness"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best-of"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best of"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best of both worlds"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best of breed"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best of British"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best off"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best of luck"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best of the bunch"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best on ground"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best-paid"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best parlour"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best part of"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best pleased"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best practice"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best regards"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best-seller"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "bestseller"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best-selling"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "bestshoring"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best thing since sliced bread"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best thing since sliced pan"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "best wishes"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "come off second best"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "'d best"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "diamonds are a girl's best friend"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "do one's best"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "experience is the best teacher"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "failure is the best teacher"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "for best"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "for the best"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "give it one's best shot"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "give one's best"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "have the best of it"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "he laughs best that laughs last"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "he who laughs last laughs best"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "honesty is the best policy"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "hunger is the best sauce"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "hunger is the best spice"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "inference to the best explanation"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "it happens to the best of us"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "laughter is the best medicine"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "line of best fit"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "live one's best life"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "look one's best"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "make the best of a bad bargain"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "make the best of a bad job"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "make the best of one's way"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "man's best friend"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "outbest"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "put one's best foot foremost"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "put one's best foot forward"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "revenge is a dish best served cold"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "save the best for last"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "second best"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "six of the best"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "sum of best"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "Sunday-best"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "Sunday best"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "sunlight is the best disinfectant"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "take one's best shot"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "the best defence is attack"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "the best defense is a good offense"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "the best is the enemy of the good"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "the best laid plans of mice and men go oft astray"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "the best things in life are free"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "the best things in life aren't things"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "third best"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "to the best of one's knowledge"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "wife's best friend"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "with the best"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "with the best of them"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "with the best will in the world"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "work best under pressure"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "first best"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "level best"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "personal best"
}
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "beste"
},
"expansion": "Middle English beste",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "betst"
},
"expansion": "Old English betst",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*batistaz"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *batistaz",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English beste, best, from Old English betst, betest, from Proto-Germanic *batistaz.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "better",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "bester",
"tags": [
"comparative",
"humorous",
"nonstandard"
]
},
{
"form": "bestest",
"tags": [
"humorous",
"nonstandard",
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "better",
"2": "er",
"comp2_qual": "nonstandard, humorous",
"sup1": "-",
"sup2_qual": "nonstandard, humorous"
},
"expansion": "best (comparative better or (nonstandard, humorous) bester, superlative (nonstandard, humorous) bestest)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I can either be your best friend or your worst enemy.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 163, column 1:",
"text": "[…] when he is beſt, he is a little worſe then a man, and when he is worſt, he is little better than a beaſt:",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, line 19:",
"text": "Heav'ns laſt beſt gift, my ever new delight,",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2011 October 7, Lana Del Rey, Justin Parker (lyrics and music), “Video Games”, in Born to Die, performed by Lana Del Rey:",
"text": "Swinging in the backyard\n Pull up in your fast car whistling my name\n Open up a beer\n And you say get over here and play a video game\n […]\n I say you the bestest\n Lean in for a big kiss, put his favorite perfume on\n Go play your video game",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2013 August 10, Schumpeter, “Cronies and capitols”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:",
"text": "Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult.[…]Governments have to find the best people to fill important jobs: there is a limited supply of people who understand the financial system, for example. But governments must also remember that businesses are self-interested actors who will try to rig the system for their own benefit.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"extra": "most good",
"word": "good"
}
],
"glosses": [
"superlative form of good: most good."
],
"id": "en-best-en-adj-XOz7O3iX",
"links": [
[
"good",
"good#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"superlative"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ʔafḍal",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "أَفْضَل"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "nejlepší"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "meilleur"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "meilleure"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Beste"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kalýteros",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "καλύτερος"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "meytáv",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "מֵיטָב"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "śreṣṭh",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "श्रेष्ठ"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "legjobb"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "best"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "migliore"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "ichiban",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "一番"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "choeseon",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "최선"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "baştirîn"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "optimus"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "terbaik"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "pai rawa atu"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "najlepszy"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "melhor"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lúčšij",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "лу́чший"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nailúčšij",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "наилу́чший"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "sm",
"lang": "Samoan",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "sili"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "śreṣṭha",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "श्रेष्ठ"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "vasiṣṭha",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "वसिष्ठ"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "mejor"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "ciṟanta",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "சிறந்த"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "mikacciṟanta",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "மிகச்சிறந்த"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "tiisiisut",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "ดีที่สุด"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "najkraščyj",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "найкращий"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 2 1",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "najlípšyj",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "найлі́пший"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "2 17 16 2 19 7 15 6 11 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English links with manual fragments",
"parents": [
"Links with manual fragments",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 21 14 1 12 5 16 6 15 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 17 14 3 15 6 12 4 18 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 16 13 1 16 6 12 7 18 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 15 13 1 16 9 11 6 18 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Friulian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Galician translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 13 6 12 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "2 14 11 2 15 8 17 6 17 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Greek translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 17 15 3 16 5 13 5 16 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hebrew translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "8 15 13 7 11 5 15 4 18 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hindi translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Icelandic translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 17 19 3 12 6 13 5 16 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Irish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 20 16 1 15 5 15 5 15 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Italian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 20 16 1 15 5 15 5 15 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Japanese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Korean translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 20 16 1 15 5 15 5 15 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Latin translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Maori translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 30 21 1 10 3 20 2 11 2",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Northern Kurdish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Norwegian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 16 13 3 16 6 11 6 18 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 20 16 1 15 5 15 5 15 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 19 16 3 13 6 13 5 16 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Sanskrit translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 22 15 1 14 5 16 5 15 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 19 16 3 12 5 13 4 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Tagalog translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 19 16 3 12 5 13 4 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Turkish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Unpacking took the best part of a week.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Most; largest."
],
"id": "en-best-en-adj-1ciBjep~",
"links": [
[
"Most",
"most"
],
[
"largest",
"largest"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "2 17 16 2 19 7 15 6 11 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English links with manual fragments",
"parents": [
"Links with manual fragments",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 17 14 3 15 6 12 4 18 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 16 13 1 16 6 12 7 18 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 15 13 1 16 9 11 6 18 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Friulian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Galician translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 13 6 12 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "2 14 11 2 15 8 17 6 17 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Greek translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 17 15 3 16 5 13 5 16 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hebrew translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "8 15 13 7 11 5 15 4 18 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hindi translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Icelandic translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 17 19 3 12 6 13 5 16 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Irish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 20 16 1 15 5 15 5 15 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Italian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 20 16 1 15 5 15 5 15 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Japanese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Korean translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 20 16 1 15 5 15 5 15 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Latin translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Maori translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Norwegian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 16 13 3 16 6 11 6 18 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 20 16 1 15 5 15 5 15 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 19 16 3 13 6 13 5 16 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Sanskrit translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 19 16 3 12 5 13 4 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Tagalog translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 19 16 3 12 5 13 4 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Turkish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "In my opinion, mushrooms are the best pizza toppings.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Most superior; most favorable."
],
"id": "en-best-en-adj-H0aDVQnW",
"links": [
[
"superior",
"superior"
],
[
"favorable",
"favorable"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɛst/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-best.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3a/En-us-best.ogg/En-us-best.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/En-us-best.ogg"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-best.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b5/En-au-best.ogg/En-au-best.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/En-au-best.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛst"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"best (disambiguation)"
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "beste"
},
"expansion": "Middle English beste",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "betst"
},
"expansion": "Old English betst",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*batistaz"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *batistaz",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English beste, best, from Old English betst, betest, from Proto-Germanic *batistaz.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "superlative adverb"
},
"expansion": "best",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adv",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"tags": [
"adjective"
],
"word": "best off"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "A popular aphorism says it best: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 867–869:",
"text": "Out of my ſight, thou Serpent, that name beſt\n Befits thee with him leagu'd, thy ſelf as falſe\n And hateful;",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 65, line 1072:",
"text": "But had we beſt retire, I ſee a ſtorm?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1797–1798 (date written), [Samuel Taylor Coleridge], “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere”, in Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, London: […] J[ohn] & A[rthur] Arch, […], published 1798, →OCLC:",
"text": "He prayeth best, who loveth best / All things both great and small.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:",
"text": "At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"extra": "most well",
"word": "well"
}
],
"glosses": [
"superlative form of well: most well"
],
"id": "en-best-en-adv-cjI8I85v",
"links": [
[
"well",
"well#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"superlative"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "superlative of the adverb well",
"word": "mieux"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "superlative of the adverb well",
"word": "am besten"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "superlative of the adverb well",
"word": "legjobban"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "superlative of the adverb well",
"word": "meglio"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"alt": "もっともうまく",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "superlative of the adverb well",
"word": "最もうまく"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "gajang jal",
"sense": "superlative of the adverb well",
"word": "가장 잘"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "superlative of the adverb well",
"word": "optime"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "superlative of the adverb well",
"word": "melhor"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "sc",
"lang": "Sardinian",
"sense": "superlative of the adverb well",
"word": "méglius"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "superlative of the adverb well",
"word": "mejor"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "superlative of the adverb well",
"word": "bäst"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "superlative of the adverb well",
"word": "pinakamahusay"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "superlative of the adverb well",
"word": "pinakamagaling"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "2 17 16 2 19 7 15 6 11 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English links with manual fragments",
"parents": [
"Links with manual fragments",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 17 14 3 15 6 12 4 18 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 16 13 1 16 6 12 7 18 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 15 13 1 16 9 11 6 18 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Friulian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Galician translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 13 6 12 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "2 14 11 2 15 8 17 6 17 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Greek translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 17 15 3 16 5 13 5 16 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hebrew translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "8 15 13 7 11 5 15 4 18 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hindi translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Icelandic translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 17 19 3 12 6 13 5 16 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Irish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 20 16 1 15 5 15 5 15 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Italian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 20 16 1 15 5 15 5 15 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Japanese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Korean translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 20 16 1 15 5 15 5 15 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Latin translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Maori translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Norwegian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 16 13 3 16 6 11 6 18 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 20 16 1 15 5 15 5 15 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 19 16 3 13 6 13 5 16 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Sanskrit translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 19 16 3 12 5 13 4 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Tagalog translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 19 16 3 12 5 13 4 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Turkish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "You'd best save a backup copy, just in case the morons lose the one that you sent and then try to act like you never sent one.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "Had I not best go to her?",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To the most advantage; with the most success, cause, profit, benefit, or propriety."
],
"id": "en-best-en-adv-TsLItSzq"
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɛst/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-best.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3a/En-us-best.ogg/En-us-best.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/En-us-best.ogg"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-best.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b5/En-au-best.ogg/En-au-best.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/En-au-best.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛst"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"best (disambiguation)"
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "first best"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "level best"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "personal best"
}
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "beste"
},
"expansion": "Middle English beste",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "betst"
},
"expansion": "Old English betst",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*batistaz"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *batistaz",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English beste, best, from Old English betst, betest, from Proto-Germanic *batistaz.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "bests",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "best (countable and uncountable, plural bests)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "good"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "excellent"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I did my best.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "My personal best in that race is eighteen minutes, four seconds.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport:",
"text": "Home defender Per Mertesacker had to be at his best to stop a dangerous cross from Vassilis Torossidis reaching Djebbour, but moments later Arsenal doubled their lead through Santos.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The supreme effort one can make, or has made."
],
"id": "en-best-en-noun-lD9VonSL",
"raw_glosses": [
"(uncountable) The supreme effort one can make, or has made."
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "91 2 7",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "effort",
"word": "paras"
},
{
"_dis1": "91 2 7",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "effort",
"word": "parhain"
},
{
"_dis1": "91 2 7",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "effort",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mieux"
},
{
"_dis1": "91 2 7",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "effort",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Bestes"
},
{
"_dis1": "91 2 7",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "effort",
"word": "minden tőle telhetőt megtesz"
},
{
"_dis1": "91 2 7",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "effort",
"word": "kitesz magáért"
},
{
"_dis1": "91 2 7",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "effort",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dícheall"
},
{
"_dis1": "91 2 7",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "besuto",
"sense": "effort",
"word": "ベスト"
},
{
"_dis1": "91 2 7",
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "effort",
"word": "baştirîn"
},
{
"_dis1": "91 2 7",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "effort",
"word": "beste"
},
{
"_dis1": "91 2 7",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vsjo vozmóžnoje",
"sense": "effort",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "всё возмо́жное"
},
{
"_dis1": "91 2 7",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lúčšij",
"sense": "effort",
"word": "лу́чший"
},
{
"_dis1": "91 2 7",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "effort",
"word": "vrchol"
},
{
"_dis1": "91 2 7",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "effort",
"word": "maximum"
},
{
"_dis1": "91 2 7",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "effort",
"word": "bästa"
},
{
"_dis1": "91 2 7",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "effort",
"word": "en iyisi"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "2 17 16 2 19 7 15 6 11 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English links with manual fragments",
"parents": [
"Links with manual fragments",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 17 14 3 15 6 12 4 18 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 16 13 1 16 6 12 7 18 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 15 13 1 16 9 11 6 18 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Friulian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Galician translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 13 6 12 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "2 14 11 2 15 8 17 6 17 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Greek translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 17 15 3 16 5 13 5 16 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hebrew translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "8 15 13 7 11 5 15 4 18 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hindi translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Icelandic translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 17 19 3 12 6 13 5 16 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Irish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 20 16 1 15 5 15 5 15 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Italian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 20 16 1 15 5 15 5 15 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Japanese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Korean translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 20 16 1 15 5 15 5 15 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Latin translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Maori translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Norwegian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 16 13 3 16 6 11 6 18 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 20 16 1 15 5 15 5 15 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 19 16 3 13 6 13 5 16 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Sanskrit translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 19 16 3 12 5 13 4 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Tagalog translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 19 16 3 12 5 13 4 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Turkish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I was somewhat distant lately, and my lady promised me head every Tuesday of the week when I’m nice to her, so I better be on my best.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"One's best behavior."
],
"id": "en-best-en-noun-3Jf4k0uw",
"links": [
[
"behavior",
"behavior"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(uncountable) One's best behavior."
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "4 13 11 3 12 5 13 21 14 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Czech translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 13 11 3 9 6 14 21 13 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 14 12 3 10 5 11 24 13 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Malay translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "3 14 12 2 14 4 11 22 13 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 14 12 3 10 5 11 24 13 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Samoan translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 14 12 3 10 5 11 24 13 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Sardinian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 14 12 3 10 5 11 24 13 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Slovak translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 14 12 3 10 5 11 24 13 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Tamil translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 14 12 3 10 5 11 24 13 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Thai translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Even the best of us makes mistakes.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "We're the best of friends.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "I love it so much! It's the best.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1994, Otis L. Guernsey, Jeffrey Sweet, The Best Plays of 1993-1994, page vii:",
"text": "Mel Gussow reviews the bests of off off Broadway",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1995 October, Cincinnati Magazine, page 5:",
"text": "But in true Cincinnati style, the bests consistently outnumber the worsts.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2011, G. Edward Evans, Sheila S. Intner, Jean Riddle Weihs, Introduction to Technical Services, page 149:",
"text": "There are the bests for each institution, the bests for coalitions, and, of course, the bests for the group as a whole.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Jesse Jose, Collections Of My Best And Most-Hated, \"A Cup O' Kapeng Barako\" Writings, page 209:",
"text": "If he's one of the bests, he should be fighting the bests, NOT the pipitsugins.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The person (or persons; or thing or things) that is (are) most excellent."
],
"id": "en-best-en-noun-vp3SIt5i",
"links": [
[
"excellent",
"excellent"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(countable) The person (or persons; or thing or things) that is (are) most excellent."
],
"tags": [
"countable"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "person",
"word": "paras"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "person",
"word": "parhain"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "person",
"word": "parhaimmisto"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person",
"word": "élite"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person",
"word": "fleur"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person",
"word": "crème"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person",
"word": "dessus du panier"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person",
"word": "meilleur"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100",
"code": "fur",
"lang": "Friulian",
"sense": "person",
"word": "miôr"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "elite"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Bester"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Beste"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "person",
"word": "migliore"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "person",
"word": "best"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "melhor"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lúčšij",
"sense": "person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "лу́чший"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "person",
"word": "élite"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "person",
"word": "flor"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "person",
"word": "nata"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "person",
"word": "bästa"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "person",
"word": "bäste"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "person",
"word": "en iyisi"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɛst/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-best.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3a/En-us-best.ogg/En-us-best.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/En-us-best.ogg"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-best.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b5/En-au-best.ogg/En-au-best.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/En-au-best.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛst"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "all that and a bag of chips"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"tags": [
"euphemistic"
],
"word": "antelope's cantaloupes"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"word": "ant's pants"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "bee's knees"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"tags": [
"British",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "bollocks"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"tags": [
"British"
],
"word": "business"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"tags": [
"vulgar"
],
"word": "cat's ass"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "cat's meow"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "gold standard"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "finger licking good"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "finger lickin' good"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "cat's pajamas"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "cat's whiskers"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "cat's pyjamas"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "crème de la crème"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "cream of the crop"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "da bomb"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"tags": [
"British",
"slang",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "dog's bollocks"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"tags": [
"British",
"euphemistic",
"slang"
],
"word": "dog's dangly bits"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "flea's eyebrows"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "fox's socks"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "greatest thing since sliced bread"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"tags": [
"vulgar"
],
"word": "kitty's titties"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "llama's pajamas"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"tags": [
"vulgar"
],
"word": "mutt's nuts"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "ne plus ultra"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"tags": [
"Ireland"
],
"word": "spider's ankles"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "the bee's knees"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "the bomb"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"tags": [
"vulgar"
],
"word": "the shit"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"tags": [
"vulgar"
],
"word": "the tits"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"best (disambiguation)"
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "worst"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "unbested"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "all for the best"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "all the best"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "as best one can"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "at best"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "best of the best"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "for one's best"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "get the best of"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "had best"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "have the best of"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "make the best of"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "the best part of"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"english": "of them",
"word": "with the best"
}
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "beste"
},
"expansion": "Middle English beste",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "betst"
},
"expansion": "Old English betst",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*batistaz"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *batistaz",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English beste, best, from Old English betst, betest, from Proto-Germanic *batistaz.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "bests",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "besting",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "bested",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "bested",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "en-conj",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "best",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "best (third-person singular simple present bests, present participle besting, simple past and past participle bested)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"name": "en-conj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "better"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "bestest"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "2 17 16 2 19 7 15 6 11 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English links with manual fragments",
"parents": [
"Links with manual fragments",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "2 18 16 2 16 3 15 2 22 3",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Arabic translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 17 14 3 15 6 12 4 18 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 16 13 1 16 6 12 7 18 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 15 13 1 16 9 11 6 18 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Friulian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Galician translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 13 6 12 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "2 14 11 2 15 8 17 6 17 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Greek translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 17 15 3 16 5 13 5 16 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hebrew translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "8 15 13 7 11 5 15 4 18 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hindi translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Icelandic translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 17 19 3 12 6 13 5 16 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Irish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 20 16 1 15 5 15 5 15 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Italian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 20 16 1 15 5 15 5 15 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Japanese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Korean translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 20 16 1 15 5 15 5 15 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Latin translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Maori translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Norwegian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 16 13 3 16 6 11 6 18 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 20 16 1 15 5 15 5 15 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 19 16 3 13 6 13 5 16 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Sanskrit translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 19 16 3 12 5 13 4 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Tagalog translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 19 16 3 12 5 13 4 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Turkish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 18 16 3 12 6 13 5 17 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To surpass in skill or achievement."
],
"id": "en-best-en-verb-npZGF~QN",
"links": [
[
"surpass",
"surpass"
],
[
"skill",
"skill"
],
[
"achievement",
"achievement"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To surpass in skill or achievement."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1944 July and August, Charles E. Lee, “The \"City of Truro\"”, in Railway Magazine, pages 201–202:",
"text": "The Norddeutscher Lloyd steamship Kronprinz Wilhelm left New York on May 3 [1904], at 3.10 p.m. and reached Plymouth Sound on May 9 at 8 a.m. This was then a very fast crossing of the Atlantic, but it was not the record. The same ship had held the \"Blue Riband\" in 1902, but had been slightly bested by the Kaiser Wilhelm II, a larger vessel of the same line, in 1903, and that stood as the record until the Cunard Line secured the honours in 1909 with the Mauretania and held them for an unbroken period of 20 years.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2010, T. William Phillips, Restless Heart, page 16:",
"text": "\"You did not win because I was sloppy. You bested me, Uncle. I've never seen you fight like that before.”",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To beat in a contest."
],
"id": "en-best-en-verb-kt38jrzm",
"links": [
[
"beat",
"beat"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To beat in a contest."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vzemam vrǎh nad",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "вземам връх над"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "porazit"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "slaan"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "overmeesteren"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "verslaan"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "overwinnen"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "päihittää"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "battre"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "vaincre"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "surpasser"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "enfoncer"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "écraser"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "aplatir"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "dominer"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "défaire"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "übertreffen"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "besiegen"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "schlagen"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "überlegen sein"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "superare"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "dominare"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "vincere"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "battere"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "tārū"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "slå"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prevzojtí",
"sense": "to beat",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "превзойти́"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pobedítʹ",
"sense": "to beat",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "победи́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "poraziť"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "sobrepasar"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "superar"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "vencer"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "rebasar"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "derrotar"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "aventajar"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "besegra"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "aşmak"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "geçmek"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɛst/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-best.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3a/En-us-best.ogg/En-us-best.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/En-us-best.ogg"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-best.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b5/En-au-best.ogg/En-au-best.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/En-au-best.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛst"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"best (disambiguation)"
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_text": "Shortening of had best",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb"
},
"expansion": "best",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "1 14 12 0 6 2 9 2 3 1 50",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "7 8 2 2 2 1 8 6 2 3 2 6 1 4 1 29 0 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 1",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 12 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "8 9 1 1 1 0 9 7 1 2 1 6 1 2 1 32 0 6 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 8 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "It's getting late. You best get on home.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1935, Edward Joseph O'Brien, John Cournos, editors, The Best British Short Stories of 1935, page 37:",
"text": "'We best be going,' she said, looking at the clock.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Mary B. Morrison, Somebody's Gotta Be On Top:",
"text": "Brother, you best be gone when I return.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Had best."
],
"id": "en-best-en-verb-z9PRyJ1a",
"links": [
[
"Had best",
"had best"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(modal verb, colloquial) Had best."
],
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"modal",
"verb"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɛst/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-best.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3a/En-us-best.ogg/En-us-best.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/En-us-best.ogg"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-best.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b5/En-au-best.ogg/En-au-best.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/En-au-best.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛst"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"best (disambiguation)"
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "af",
"2": "beste"
},
"expansion": "Afrikaans: beste",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Afrikaans: beste"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "brc",
"2": "besti"
},
"expansion": "Berbice Creole Dutch: besti",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Berbice Creole Dutch: besti"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "dcr",
"2": "bes",
"3": "best"
},
"expansion": "Negerhollands: bes, best",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Negerhollands: bes, best"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "srn",
"2": "besi",
"bor": "1",
"unc": "1"
},
"expansion": "→? Sranan Tongo: besi",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→? Sranan Tongo: besi"
}
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "dum",
"3": "best"
},
"expansion": "Middle Dutch best",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "odt",
"3": "*betst"
},
"expansion": "Old Dutch *betst",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*batistaz"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *batistaz",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "best"
},
"expansion": "Low German best",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "best"
},
"expansion": "English best",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "best"
},
"expansion": "West Frisian best",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "besten"
},
"expansion": "German besten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "bedst"
},
"expansion": "Danish bedst",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle Dutch best, from Old Dutch *betst, from Proto-Germanic *batistaz, superlative of *gōdaz. Compare Low German best, English best, West Frisian best, German besten, Danish bedst.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "adjective form"
},
"expansion": "best",
"name": "head"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"best"
],
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "33 40 5 7 15",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Dutch entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"extra": "best",
"word": "goed"
}
],
"glosses": [
"superlative degree of goed; best"
],
"id": "en-best-nl-adj-Hj8sZJnZ",
"links": [
[
"goed",
"goed#Dutch"
],
[
"best",
"best#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"superlative"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "33 40 5 7 15",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Dutch entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "May I go and play outside? — It's fine with me, as long as you're back home again before dinner.",
"text": "Mag ik buiten spelen? — Ik vind het best, als je maar voor het eten weer thuis bent.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"fine, okay"
],
"id": "en-best-nl-adj-8BOmSvMb",
"links": [
[
"fine",
"fine"
],
[
"okay",
"okay"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 100 0",
"sense": "fine",
"word": "prima"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Dear Piet, we thank you for 40 years of loyal service.",
"text": "Beste Piet, wij danken je voor 40 jaar trouwe dienst.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"dear, venerable (in a polite address)"
],
"id": "en-best-nl-adj-n0om1D8G",
"links": [
[
"dear",
"dear"
],
[
"venerable",
"venerable"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/bɛst/"
},
{
"audio": "Nl-best.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e0/Nl-best.ogg/Nl-best.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Nl-best.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛst"
},
{
"homophone": "Best"
}
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "dum",
"3": "best"
},
"expansion": "Middle Dutch best",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "odt",
"3": "*betst"
},
"expansion": "Old Dutch *betst",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*batistaz"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *batistaz",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "best"
},
"expansion": "Low German best",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "best"
},
"expansion": "English best",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "best"
},
"expansion": "West Frisian best",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "besten"
},
"expansion": "German besten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "bedst"
},
"expansion": "Danish bedst",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle Dutch best, from Old Dutch *betst, from Proto-Germanic *batistaz, superlative of *gōdaz. Compare Low German best, English best, West Frisian best, German besten, Danish bedst.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "best",
"name": "nl-adv"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"best"
],
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "It's quite possible.",
"text": "Dat zou best kunnen.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"quite, rather"
],
"id": "en-best-nl-adv-OE7MY3w1",
"links": [
[
"quite",
"quite"
],
[
"rather",
"rather"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/bɛst/"
},
{
"audio": "Nl-best.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e0/Nl-best.ogg/Nl-best.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Nl-best.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛst"
},
{
"homophone": "Best"
}
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"etymology_number": 2,
"forms": [
{
"form": "besten",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "bestje",
"tags": [
"diminutive",
"neuter"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "f",
"2": "-en",
"3": "+"
},
"expansion": "best f (plural besten, diminutive bestje n)",
"name": "nl-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"best"
],
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "old woman",
"word": "bes"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "33 40 5 7 15",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Dutch entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of bes (“old woman”)"
],
"id": "en-best-nl-noun-KizNBtNt",
"links": [
[
"bes",
"bes#Dutch"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(dated, chiefly diminutive) Alternative form of bes (“old woman”)"
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"dated",
"diminutive",
"feminine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/bɛst/"
},
{
"audio": "Nl-best.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e0/Nl-best.ogg/Nl-best.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Nl-best.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛst"
},
{
"homophone": "Best"
}
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "odt",
"3": "*betst"
},
"expansion": "Old Dutch *betst",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*batistaz"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *batistaz",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old Dutch *betst, from Proto-Germanic *batistaz.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "superlative adjective"
},
"expansion": "best",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Middle Dutch",
"lang_code": "dum",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"best; superlative degree of goet"
],
"id": "en-best-dum-adj-4iFuhX0y",
"links": [
[
"best",
"best#English"
],
[
"goet",
"goet#Middle_Dutch"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/best/"
}
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "best"
},
"expansion": "Dutch: best\nAfrikaans: beste\nBerbice Creole Dutch: besti\nNegerhollands: bes, best\n→? Sranan Tongo: besi",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Dutch: best\nAfrikaans: beste\nBerbice Creole Dutch: besti\nNegerhollands: bes, best\n→? Sranan Tongo: besi"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "li",
"2": "bès"
},
"expansion": "Limburgish: bès",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Limburgish: bès"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "odt",
"3": "*betst"
},
"expansion": "Old Dutch *betst",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*batistaz"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *batistaz",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old Dutch *betst, from Proto-Germanic *batistaz.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "superlative adverb"
},
"expansion": "best",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Middle Dutch",
"lang_code": "dum",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "5 95",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Middle Dutch entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"best; superlative degree of wel"
],
"id": "en-best-dum-adv-ENw14pkN",
"links": [
[
"best",
"best#English"
],
[
"wel",
"wel#Middle_Dutch"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/best/"
}
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "ang",
"3": "betst"
},
"expansion": "Old English betst",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old English betst, betest.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "adjective form"
},
"expansion": "best",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "beste"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "33 33 34",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of beste"
],
"id": "en-best-enm-adj-XsEAvUEV",
"links": [
[
"beste",
"beste#Middle_English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "ang",
"3": "betst"
},
"expansion": "Old English betst",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old English betst, betest.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "adverb form"
},
"expansion": "best",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "beste"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "33 33 34",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of beste"
],
"id": "en-best-enm-adv-XsEAvUEV",
"links": [
[
"beste",
"beste#Middle_English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "fro",
"3": "beste"
},
"expansion": "Old French beste",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old French beste.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "best",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "beeste"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "33 33 34",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of beeste"
],
"id": "en-best-enm-noun-9dlSmPxf",
"links": [
[
"beeste",
"beeste#Middle_English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "frr",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "best",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "North Frisian",
"lang_code": "frr",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "North Frisian entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 12 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "wiis"
}
],
"glosses": [
"second-person singular present of wiis"
],
"id": "en-best-frr-verb-NUE7-2B1",
"links": [
[
"wiis",
"wiis#North_Frisian"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
}
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "bestselger"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "bestselgende"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nb",
"2": "non",
"3": "beztr"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse beztr",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old Norse beztr.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nb",
"2": "superlative adjective"
},
"expansion": "best",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"lang_code": "nb",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"extra": "best",
"word": "god"
}
],
"glosses": [
"indefinite singular superlative degree of god: best"
],
"id": "en-best-nb-adj-hXDFZKod",
"links": [
[
"god",
"god#Norwegian_Bokmål"
],
[
"best",
"best#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"indefinite",
"singular",
"superlative"
]
},
{
"form_of": [
{
"extra": "best",
"word": "bra"
}
],
"glosses": [
"indefinite singular superlative degree of bra: best"
],
"id": "en-best-nb-adj-KtY3vMW5",
"links": [
[
"bra",
"bra#Norwegian_Bokmål"
],
[
"best",
"best#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"indefinite",
"singular",
"superlative"
]
}
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nn",
"2": "non",
"3": "beztr"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse beztr",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old Norse beztr.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nn",
"2": "superlative adjective"
},
"expansion": "best",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"lang_code": "nn",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"extra": "best",
"word": "god"
}
],
"glosses": [
"indefinite singular superlative degree of god: best"
],
"id": "en-best-nn-adj-hXDFZKod",
"links": [
[
"god",
"god#Norwegian_Nynorsk"
],
[
"best",
"best#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"indefinite",
"singular",
"superlative"
]
},
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "bra"
}
],
"glosses": [
"indefinite singular superlative degree of bra"
],
"id": "en-best-nn-adj-RWQo7HyG",
"links": [
[
"bra",
"bra#Norwegian_Nynorsk"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"indefinite",
"singular",
"superlative"
]
}
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "best"
},
"expansion": "Low German: best",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Low German: best"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "osx",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*batistaz"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *batistaz",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Germanic *batistaz.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "osx",
"2": "superlative adverb"
},
"expansion": "best",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Old Saxon",
"lang_code": "osx",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Old Saxon entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 12 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"best"
],
"id": "en-best-osx-adv-j0N17GXC",
"links": [
[
"best",
"best#English"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "betst"
}
]
}
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pdt",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "best",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"lang_code": "pdt",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 12 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Plautdietsch entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "sennen"
}
],
"glosses": [
"second-person singular present of sennen"
],
"id": "en-best-pdt-verb-UH3bVy2Q",
"links": [
[
"sennen",
"sennen#Plautdietsch"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
}
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "en",
"3": "best"
},
"expansion": "Unadapted borrowing from English best",
"name": "ubor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Unadapted borrowing from English best.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "bests",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "mfbysense",
"2": "#s"
},
"expansion": "best m or f by sense (plural bests)",
"name": "pt-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Brazilian Portuguese",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 12 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Portuguese masculine and feminine nouns by sense",
"parents": [
"Masculine and feminine nouns by sense",
"Nouns by gender",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "pt",
"name": "Friendship",
"orig": "pt:Friendship",
"parents": [
"Human behaviour",
"Virtue",
"Human",
"Ethics",
"All topics",
"Philosophy",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "pt",
"name": "People",
"orig": "pt:People",
"parents": [
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"bestie (best friend)"
],
"id": "en-best-pt-noun-2~gcWxTW",
"links": [
[
"bestie",
"bestie#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Brazil, informal) bestie (best friend)"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "bestie"
},
{
"word": "BFF"
}
],
"tags": [
"Brazil",
"by-personal-gender",
"feminine",
"informal",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɛst͡ʃ/",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɛs.t͡ʃi/",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɛst͡ʃ/",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɛs.t͡ʃi/",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɛʃt͡ʃ/",
"tags": [
"Rio-de-Janeiro"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɛʃ.t͡ʃi/",
"tags": [
"Rio-de-Janeiro"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɛst͡ʃ/",
"tags": [
"Southern-Brazil"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛsti"
}
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "superlative adjective"
},
"expansion": "best",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "97 3",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Scots entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"english": "best of a bad lot, best of a poor selection",
"word": "ill-best"
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "guid"
}
],
"glosses": [
"superlative degree of guid"
],
"id": "en-best-sco-adj-kboAqw1V",
"links": [
[
"guid",
"guid#Scots"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"superlative"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[bɛst]"
}
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "bests",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"10": "",
"2": "noun",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "plural",
"6": "bests",
"7": "",
"8": "",
"9": "",
"cat2": "",
"cat3": "",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "best (plural bests)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "best (plural bests)",
"name": "sco-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"groomsman"
],
"id": "en-best-sco-noun-7CaDlZSn",
"links": [
[
"groomsman",
"groomsman"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[bɛst]"
}
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "la",
"3": "bēstia"
},
"expansion": "Latin bēstia",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Ultimately from Latin bēstia.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "sv-infl-noun-c-ar",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "best",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "besten",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "bestar",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "bestarna",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "bests",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "bestens",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "bestars",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "bestarnas",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "nouns",
"3": "",
"g": "c",
"g2": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "best c",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "c"
},
"expansion": "best c",
"name": "sv-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"name": "sv-infl-noun-c-ar"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "best",
"2": "besten",
"3": "bestar",
"4": "bestarna",
"5": "bests",
"6": "bestens",
"7": "bestars",
"8": "bestarnas",
"base": "best",
"definitions": "",
"gender": "Common"
},
"name": "sv-decl-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 12 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"beast"
],
"id": "en-best-sv-noun-G~QXvYcW",
"links": [
[
"beast",
"beast"
]
],
"tags": [
"common-gender"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"homophone": "bäst"
}
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"categories": [
"Dutch adjective forms",
"Dutch adverbs",
"Dutch entries with incorrect language header",
"Dutch feminine nouns",
"Dutch lemmas",
"Dutch non-lemma forms",
"Dutch nouns",
"Dutch nouns with plural in -en",
"Dutch terms derived from Middle Dutch",
"Dutch terms derived from Old Dutch",
"Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch",
"Dutch terms inherited from Old Dutch",
"Dutch terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Dutch terms with homophones",
"Pages with 12 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Dutch/ɛst",
"Rhymes:Dutch/ɛst/1 syllable"
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "af",
"2": "beste"
},
"expansion": "Afrikaans: beste",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Afrikaans: beste"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "brc",
"2": "besti"
},
"expansion": "Berbice Creole Dutch: besti",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Berbice Creole Dutch: besti"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "dcr",
"2": "bes",
"3": "best"
},
"expansion": "Negerhollands: bes, best",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Negerhollands: bes, best"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "srn",
"2": "besi",
"bor": "1",
"unc": "1"
},
"expansion": "→? Sranan Tongo: besi",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→? Sranan Tongo: besi"
}
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "dum",
"3": "best"
},
"expansion": "Middle Dutch best",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "odt",
"3": "*betst"
},
"expansion": "Old Dutch *betst",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*batistaz"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *batistaz",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "best"
},
"expansion": "Low German best",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "best"
},
"expansion": "English best",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "best"
},
"expansion": "West Frisian best",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "besten"
},
"expansion": "German besten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "bedst"
},
"expansion": "Danish bedst",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle Dutch best, from Old Dutch *betst, from Proto-Germanic *batistaz, superlative of *gōdaz. Compare Low German best, English best, West Frisian best, German besten, Danish bedst.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "adjective form"
},
"expansion": "best",
"name": "head"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"best"
],
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Dutch superlative adjectives"
],
"form_of": [
{
"extra": "best",
"word": "goed"
}
],
"glosses": [
"superlative degree of goed; best"
],
"links": [
[
"goed",
"goed#Dutch"
],
[
"best",
"best#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"superlative"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Dutch terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "May I go and play outside? — It's fine with me, as long as you're back home again before dinner.",
"text": "Mag ik buiten spelen? — Ik vind het best, als je maar voor het eten weer thuis bent.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"fine, okay"
],
"links": [
[
"fine",
"fine"
],
[
"okay",
"okay"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Dutch terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Dear Piet, we thank you for 40 years of loyal service.",
"text": "Beste Piet, wij danken je voor 40 jaar trouwe dienst.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"dear, venerable (in a polite address)"
],
"links": [
[
"dear",
"dear"
],
[
"venerable",
"venerable"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/bɛst/"
},
{
"audio": "Nl-best.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e0/Nl-best.ogg/Nl-best.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Nl-best.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛst"
},
{
"homophone": "Best"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "fine",
"word": "prima"
}
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"categories": [
"Dutch adjective forms",
"Dutch adverbs",
"Dutch entries with incorrect language header",
"Dutch feminine nouns",
"Dutch lemmas",
"Dutch non-lemma forms",
"Dutch nouns",
"Dutch nouns with plural in -en",
"Dutch terms derived from Middle Dutch",
"Dutch terms derived from Old Dutch",
"Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch",
"Dutch terms inherited from Old Dutch",
"Dutch terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Dutch terms with homophones",
"Pages with 12 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Dutch/ɛst",
"Rhymes:Dutch/ɛst/1 syllable"
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "dum",
"3": "best"
},
"expansion": "Middle Dutch best",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "odt",
"3": "*betst"
},
"expansion": "Old Dutch *betst",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*batistaz"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *batistaz",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "best"
},
"expansion": "Low German best",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "best"
},
"expansion": "English best",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "best"
},
"expansion": "West Frisian best",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "besten"
},
"expansion": "German besten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "bedst"
},
"expansion": "Danish bedst",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle Dutch best, from Old Dutch *betst, from Proto-Germanic *batistaz, superlative of *gōdaz. Compare Low German best, English best, West Frisian best, German besten, Danish bedst.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "best",
"name": "nl-adv"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"best"
],
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Dutch terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "It's quite possible.",
"text": "Dat zou best kunnen.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"quite, rather"
],
"links": [
[
"quite",
"quite"
],
[
"rather",
"rather"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/bɛst/"
},
{
"audio": "Nl-best.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e0/Nl-best.ogg/Nl-best.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Nl-best.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛst"
},
{
"homophone": "Best"
}
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"categories": [
"Dutch entries with incorrect language header",
"Dutch feminine nouns",
"Dutch lemmas",
"Dutch nouns",
"Dutch nouns with plural in -en",
"Dutch terms with homophones",
"Pages with 12 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Dutch/ɛst",
"Rhymes:Dutch/ɛst/1 syllable"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"forms": [
{
"form": "besten",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "bestje",
"tags": [
"diminutive",
"neuter"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "f",
"2": "-en",
"3": "+"
},
"expansion": "best f (plural besten, diminutive bestje n)",
"name": "nl-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"best"
],
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "old woman",
"word": "bes"
}
],
"categories": [
"Dutch dated terms"
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of bes (“old woman”)"
],
"links": [
[
"bes",
"bes#Dutch"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(dated, chiefly diminutive) Alternative form of bes (“old woman”)"
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"dated",
"diminutive",
"feminine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/bɛst/"
},
{
"audio": "Nl-best.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e0/Nl-best.ogg/Nl-best.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Nl-best.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛst"
},
{
"homophone": "Best"
}
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "worst"
},
{
"tags": [
"nonstandard"
],
"word": "baddest"
}
],
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English auxiliary verbs",
"English countable nouns",
"English defective verbs",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English irregular verbs",
"English lemmas",
"English links with manual fragments",
"English modal verbs",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English nouns",
"English superlative adverbs",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Old English",
"English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Old English",
"English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 12 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ɛst",
"Rhymes:English/ɛst/1 syllable",
"Terms with Arabic translations",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Czech translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Friulian translations",
"Terms with Galician translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Greek translations",
"Terms with Hebrew translations",
"Terms with Hindi translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Icelandic translations",
"Terms with Irish translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
"Terms with Korean translations",
"Terms with Latin translations",
"Terms with Malay translations",
"Terms with Maori translations",
"Terms with Northern Kurdish translations",
"Terms with Norwegian translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Samoan translations",
"Terms with Sanskrit translations",
"Terms with Sardinian translations",
"Terms with Slovak translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"Terms with Tagalog translations",
"Terms with Tamil translations",
"Terms with Thai translations",
"Terms with Turkish translations",
"Terms with Ukrainian translations"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "accidents will happen in the best regulated families"
},
{
"word": "alderbest"
},
{
"word": "as best as one can"
},
{
"word": "at one's best"
},
{
"word": "attack is the best form of defence"
},
{
"word": "attack is the best form of defense"
},
{
"word": "at the best"
},
{
"word": "at the best of times"
},
{
"word": "best and fairest"
},
{
"word": "best ball"
},
{
"word": "best before date"
},
{
"word": "best-before date"
},
{
"word": "best bet"
},
{
"word": "best bib and tucker"
},
{
"word": "best bitter"
},
{
"word": "best bower"
},
{
"word": "best boy"
},
{
"word": "best-by date"
},
{
"word": "best-case"
},
{
"word": "best-case scenario"
},
{
"word": "best case scenario"
},
{
"word": "best efforts"
},
{
"word": "bester"
},
{
"word": "bestest"
},
{
"word": "best evidence rule"
},
{
"word": "best form lens"
},
{
"word": "best friend"
},
{
"word": "best friend forever"
},
{
"word": "best gal"
},
{
"word": "best girl"
},
{
"word": "best in class"
},
{
"word": "best-kept secret"
},
{
"word": "Best Korea"
},
{
"word": "best laid plans"
},
{
"word": "best maid"
},
{
"word": "best man"
},
{
"word": "bestness"
},
{
"word": "best-of"
},
{
"word": "best of"
},
{
"word": "best of both worlds"
},
{
"word": "best of breed"
},
{
"word": "best of British"
},
{
"word": "best off"
},
{
"word": "best of luck"
},
{
"word": "best of the bunch"
},
{
"word": "best on ground"
},
{
"word": "best-paid"
},
{
"word": "best parlour"
},
{
"word": "best part of"
},
{
"word": "best pleased"
},
{
"word": "best practice"
},
{
"word": "best regards"
},
{
"word": "best-seller"
},
{
"word": "bestseller"
},
{
"word": "best-selling"
},
{
"word": "bestshoring"
},
{
"word": "best thing since sliced bread"
},
{
"word": "best thing since sliced pan"
},
{
"word": "best wishes"
},
{
"word": "come off second best"
},
{
"word": "'d best"
},
{
"word": "diamonds are a girl's best friend"
},
{
"word": "do one's best"
},
{
"word": "experience is the best teacher"
},
{
"word": "failure is the best teacher"
},
{
"word": "first best"
},
{
"word": "for best"
},
{
"word": "for the best"
},
{
"word": "give it one's best shot"
},
{
"word": "give one's best"
},
{
"word": "have the best of it"
},
{
"word": "he laughs best that laughs last"
},
{
"word": "he who laughs last laughs best"
},
{
"word": "honesty is the best policy"
},
{
"word": "hunger is the best sauce"
},
{
"word": "hunger is the best spice"
},
{
"word": "inference to the best explanation"
},
{
"word": "it happens to the best of us"
},
{
"word": "laughter is the best medicine"
},
{
"word": "level best"
},
{
"word": "line of best fit"
},
{
"word": "live one's best life"
},
{
"word": "look one's best"
},
{
"word": "make the best of a bad bargain"
},
{
"word": "make the best of a bad job"
},
{
"word": "make the best of one's way"
},
{
"word": "man's best friend"
},
{
"word": "outbest"
},
{
"word": "personal best"
},
{
"word": "put one's best foot foremost"
},
{
"word": "put one's best foot forward"
},
{
"word": "revenge is a dish best served cold"
},
{
"word": "save the best for last"
},
{
"word": "second best"
},
{
"word": "six of the best"
},
{
"word": "sum of best"
},
{
"word": "Sunday-best"
},
{
"word": "Sunday best"
},
{
"word": "sunlight is the best disinfectant"
},
{
"word": "take one's best shot"
},
{
"word": "the best defence is attack"
},
{
"word": "the best defense is a good offense"
},
{
"word": "the best is the enemy of the good"
},
{
"word": "the best laid plans of mice and men go oft astray"
},
{
"word": "the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry"
},
{
"word": "the best things in life are free"
},
{
"word": "the best things in life aren't things"
},
{
"word": "third best"
},
{
"word": "to the best of one's knowledge"
},
{
"word": "wife's best friend"
},
{
"word": "with the best"
},
{
"word": "with the best of them"
},
{
"word": "with the best will in the world"
},
{
"word": "work best under pressure"
}
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "beste"
},
"expansion": "Middle English beste",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "betst"
},
"expansion": "Old English betst",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*batistaz"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *batistaz",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English beste, best, from Old English betst, betest, from Proto-Germanic *batistaz.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "better",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "bester",
"tags": [
"comparative",
"humorous",
"nonstandard"
]
},
{
"form": "bestest",
"tags": [
"humorous",
"nonstandard",
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "better",
"2": "er",
"comp2_qual": "nonstandard, humorous",
"sup1": "-",
"sup2_qual": "nonstandard, humorous"
},
"expansion": "best (comparative better or (nonstandard, humorous) bester, superlative (nonstandard, humorous) bestest)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English superlative adjectives",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I can either be your best friend or your worst enemy.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 163, column 1:",
"text": "[…] when he is beſt, he is a little worſe then a man, and when he is worſt, he is little better than a beaſt:",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, line 19:",
"text": "Heav'ns laſt beſt gift, my ever new delight,",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2011 October 7, Lana Del Rey, Justin Parker (lyrics and music), “Video Games”, in Born to Die, performed by Lana Del Rey:",
"text": "Swinging in the backyard\n Pull up in your fast car whistling my name\n Open up a beer\n And you say get over here and play a video game\n […]\n I say you the bestest\n Lean in for a big kiss, put his favorite perfume on\n Go play your video game",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2013 August 10, Schumpeter, “Cronies and capitols”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:",
"text": "Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult.[…]Governments have to find the best people to fill important jobs: there is a limited supply of people who understand the financial system, for example. But governments must also remember that businesses are self-interested actors who will try to rig the system for their own benefit.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"extra": "most good",
"word": "good"
}
],
"glosses": [
"superlative form of good: most good."
],
"links": [
[
"good",
"good#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"superlative"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Unpacking took the best part of a week.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Most; largest."
],
"links": [
[
"Most",
"most"
],
[
"largest",
"largest"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "In my opinion, mushrooms are the best pizza toppings.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Most superior; most favorable."
],
"links": [
[
"superior",
"superior"
],
[
"favorable",
"favorable"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɛst/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-best.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3a/En-us-best.ogg/En-us-best.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/En-us-best.ogg"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-best.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b5/En-au-best.ogg/En-au-best.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/En-au-best.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛst"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ʔafḍal",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "أَفْضَل"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "nejlepší"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "meilleur"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "meilleure"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Beste"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kalýteros",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "καλύτερος"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "meytáv",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "מֵיטָב"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "śreṣṭh",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "श्रेष्ठ"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "legjobb"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "best"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "migliore"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "ichiban",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "一番"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "choeseon",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "최선"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "baştirîn"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "optimus"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "terbaik"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "pai rawa atu"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "najlepszy"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "melhor"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lúčšij",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "лу́чший"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nailúčšij",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "наилу́чший"
},
{
"code": "sm",
"lang": "Samoan",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "sili"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "śreṣṭha",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "श्रेष्ठ"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "vasiṣṭha",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "वसिष्ठ"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "mejor"
},
{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "ciṟanta",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "சிறந்த"
},
{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "mikacciṟanta",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "மிகச்சிறந்த"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "tiisiisut",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "ดีที่สุด"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "najkraščyj",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "найкращий"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "najlípšyj",
"sense": "superlative of the adjective good",
"word": "найлі́пший"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"best (disambiguation)"
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English auxiliary verbs",
"English countable nouns",
"English defective verbs",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English irregular verbs",
"English lemmas",
"English links with manual fragments",
"English modal verbs",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English nouns",
"English superlative adverbs",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Old English",
"English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Old English",
"English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 12 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ɛst",
"Rhymes:English/ɛst/1 syllable",
"Terms with Arabic translations",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Czech translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Friulian translations",
"Terms with Galician translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Greek translations",
"Terms with Hebrew translations",
"Terms with Hindi translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Icelandic translations",
"Terms with Irish translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
"Terms with Korean translations",
"Terms with Latin translations",
"Terms with Malay translations",
"Terms with Maori translations",
"Terms with Northern Kurdish translations",
"Terms with Norwegian translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Samoan translations",
"Terms with Sanskrit translations",
"Terms with Sardinian translations",
"Terms with Slovak translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"Terms with Tagalog translations",
"Terms with Tamil translations",
"Terms with Thai translations",
"Terms with Turkish translations",
"Terms with Ukrainian translations"
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "beste"
},
"expansion": "Middle English beste",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "betst"
},
"expansion": "Old English betst",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*batistaz"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *batistaz",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English beste, best, from Old English betst, betest, from Proto-Germanic *batistaz.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "superlative adverb"
},
"expansion": "best",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adv",
"related": [
{
"tags": [
"adjective"
],
"word": "best off"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English superlative adverbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "A popular aphorism says it best: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 867–869:",
"text": "Out of my ſight, thou Serpent, that name beſt\n Befits thee with him leagu'd, thy ſelf as falſe\n And hateful;",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 65, line 1072:",
"text": "But had we beſt retire, I ſee a ſtorm?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1797–1798 (date written), [Samuel Taylor Coleridge], “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere”, in Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, London: […] J[ohn] & A[rthur] Arch, […], published 1798, →OCLC:",
"text": "He prayeth best, who loveth best / All things both great and small.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:",
"text": "At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"extra": "most well",
"word": "well"
}
],
"glosses": [
"superlative form of well: most well"
],
"links": [
[
"well",
"well#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"superlative"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "You'd best save a backup copy, just in case the morons lose the one that you sent and then try to act like you never sent one.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "Had I not best go to her?",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To the most advantage; with the most success, cause, profit, benefit, or propriety."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɛst/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-best.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3a/En-us-best.ogg/En-us-best.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/En-us-best.ogg"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-best.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b5/En-au-best.ogg/En-au-best.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/En-au-best.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛst"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "superlative of the adverb well",
"word": "mieux"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "superlative of the adverb well",
"word": "am besten"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "superlative of the adverb well",
"word": "legjobban"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "superlative of the adverb well",
"word": "meglio"
},
{
"alt": "もっともうまく",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "superlative of the adverb well",
"word": "最もうまく"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "gajang jal",
"sense": "superlative of the adverb well",
"word": "가장 잘"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "superlative of the adverb well",
"word": "optime"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "superlative of the adverb well",
"word": "melhor"
},
{
"code": "sc",
"lang": "Sardinian",
"sense": "superlative of the adverb well",
"word": "méglius"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "superlative of the adverb well",
"word": "mejor"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "superlative of the adverb well",
"word": "bäst"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "superlative of the adverb well",
"word": "pinakamahusay"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "superlative of the adverb well",
"word": "pinakamagaling"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"best (disambiguation)"
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English auxiliary verbs",
"English countable nouns",
"English defective verbs",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English irregular verbs",
"English lemmas",
"English links with manual fragments",
"English modal verbs",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English nouns",
"English superlative adverbs",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Old English",
"English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Old English",
"English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 12 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ɛst",
"Rhymes:English/ɛst/1 syllable",
"Terms with Arabic translations",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Czech translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Friulian translations",
"Terms with Galician translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Greek translations",
"Terms with Hebrew translations",
"Terms with Hindi translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Icelandic translations",
"Terms with Irish translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
"Terms with Korean translations",
"Terms with Latin translations",
"Terms with Malay translations",
"Terms with Maori translations",
"Terms with Northern Kurdish translations",
"Terms with Norwegian translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Samoan translations",
"Terms with Sanskrit translations",
"Terms with Sardinian translations",
"Terms with Slovak translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"Terms with Tagalog translations",
"Terms with Tamil translations",
"Terms with Thai translations",
"Terms with Turkish translations",
"Terms with Ukrainian translations"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "first best"
},
{
"word": "level best"
},
{
"word": "personal best"
}
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "beste"
},
"expansion": "Middle English beste",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "betst"
},
"expansion": "Old English betst",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*batistaz"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *batistaz",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English beste, best, from Old English betst, betest, from Proto-Germanic *batistaz.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "bests",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "best (countable and uncountable, plural bests)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "good"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "excellent"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English uncountable nouns"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I did my best.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "My personal best in that race is eighteen minutes, four seconds.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport:",
"text": "Home defender Per Mertesacker had to be at his best to stop a dangerous cross from Vassilis Torossidis reaching Djebbour, but moments later Arsenal doubled their lead through Santos.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The supreme effort one can make, or has made."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(uncountable) The supreme effort one can make, or has made."
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples",
"English uncountable nouns"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I was somewhat distant lately, and my lady promised me head every Tuesday of the week when I’m nice to her, so I better be on my best.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"One's best behavior."
],
"links": [
[
"behavior",
"behavior"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(uncountable) One's best behavior."
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Even the best of us makes mistakes.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "We're the best of friends.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "I love it so much! It's the best.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1994, Otis L. Guernsey, Jeffrey Sweet, The Best Plays of 1993-1994, page vii:",
"text": "Mel Gussow reviews the bests of off off Broadway",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1995 October, Cincinnati Magazine, page 5:",
"text": "But in true Cincinnati style, the bests consistently outnumber the worsts.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2011, G. Edward Evans, Sheila S. Intner, Jean Riddle Weihs, Introduction to Technical Services, page 149:",
"text": "There are the bests for each institution, the bests for coalitions, and, of course, the bests for the group as a whole.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Jesse Jose, Collections Of My Best And Most-Hated, \"A Cup O' Kapeng Barako\" Writings, page 209:",
"text": "If he's one of the bests, he should be fighting the bests, NOT the pipitsugins.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The person (or persons; or thing or things) that is (are) most excellent."
],
"links": [
[
"excellent",
"excellent"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(countable) The person (or persons; or thing or things) that is (are) most excellent."
],
"tags": [
"countable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɛst/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-best.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3a/En-us-best.ogg/En-us-best.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/En-us-best.ogg"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-best.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b5/En-au-best.ogg/En-au-best.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/En-au-best.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛst"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "all that and a bag of chips"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"tags": [
"euphemistic"
],
"word": "antelope's cantaloupes"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"word": "ant's pants"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "bee's knees"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"tags": [
"British",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "bollocks"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"tags": [
"British"
],
"word": "business"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"tags": [
"vulgar"
],
"word": "cat's ass"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "cat's meow"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "gold standard"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "finger licking good"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "finger lickin' good"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "cat's pajamas"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "cat's whiskers"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "cat's pyjamas"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "crème de la crème"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "cream of the crop"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "da bomb"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"tags": [
"British",
"slang",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "dog's bollocks"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"tags": [
"British",
"euphemistic",
"slang"
],
"word": "dog's dangly bits"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "flea's eyebrows"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "fox's socks"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "greatest thing since sliced bread"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"tags": [
"vulgar"
],
"word": "kitty's titties"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "llama's pajamas"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"tags": [
"vulgar"
],
"word": "mutt's nuts"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "ne plus ultra"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"tags": [
"Ireland"
],
"word": "spider's ankles"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"word": "the bee's knees"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "the bomb"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"tags": [
"vulgar"
],
"word": "the shit"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:best",
"tags": [
"vulgar"
],
"word": "the tits"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "effort",
"word": "paras"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "effort",
"word": "parhain"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "effort",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mieux"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "effort",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Bestes"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "effort",
"word": "minden tőle telhetőt megtesz"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "effort",
"word": "kitesz magáért"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "effort",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dícheall"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "besuto",
"sense": "effort",
"word": "ベスト"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "effort",
"word": "baştirîn"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "effort",
"word": "beste"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vsjo vozmóžnoje",
"sense": "effort",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "всё возмо́жное"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lúčšij",
"sense": "effort",
"word": "лу́чший"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "effort",
"word": "vrchol"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "effort",
"word": "maximum"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "effort",
"word": "bästa"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "effort",
"word": "en iyisi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "person",
"word": "paras"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "person",
"word": "parhain"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "person",
"word": "parhaimmisto"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person",
"word": "élite"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person",
"word": "fleur"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person",
"word": "crème"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person",
"word": "dessus du panier"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person",
"word": "meilleur"
},
{
"code": "fur",
"lang": "Friulian",
"sense": "person",
"word": "miôr"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "elite"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Bester"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Beste"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "person",
"word": "migliore"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "person",
"word": "best"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "melhor"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lúčšij",
"sense": "person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "лу́чший"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "person",
"word": "élite"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "person",
"word": "flor"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "person",
"word": "nata"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "person",
"word": "bästa"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "person",
"word": "bäste"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "person",
"word": "en iyisi"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"best (disambiguation)"
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "worst"
}
],
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English auxiliary verbs",
"English countable nouns",
"English defective verbs",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English irregular verbs",
"English lemmas",
"English links with manual fragments",
"English modal verbs",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English nouns",
"English superlative adverbs",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Old English",
"English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Old English",
"English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 12 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ɛst",
"Rhymes:English/ɛst/1 syllable",
"Terms with Arabic translations",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Czech translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Friulian translations",
"Terms with Galician translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Greek translations",
"Terms with Hebrew translations",
"Terms with Hindi translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Icelandic translations",
"Terms with Irish translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
"Terms with Korean translations",
"Terms with Latin translations",
"Terms with Malay translations",
"Terms with Maori translations",
"Terms with Northern Kurdish translations",
"Terms with Norwegian translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Samoan translations",
"Terms with Sanskrit translations",
"Terms with Sardinian translations",
"Terms with Slovak translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"Terms with Tagalog translations",
"Terms with Tamil translations",
"Terms with Thai translations",
"Terms with Turkish translations",
"Terms with Ukrainian translations"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "unbested"
},
{
"word": "all for the best"
},
{
"word": "all the best"
},
{
"word": "as best one can"
},
{
"word": "at best"
},
{
"word": "best of the best"
},
{
"word": "for one's best"
},
{
"word": "get the best of"
},
{
"word": "had best"
},
{
"word": "have the best of"
},
{
"word": "make the best of"
},
{
"word": "the best part of"
},
{
"english": "of them",
"word": "with the best"
}
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "beste"
},
"expansion": "Middle English beste",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "betst"
},
"expansion": "Old English betst",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*batistaz"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *batistaz",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English beste, best, from Old English betst, betest, from Proto-Germanic *batistaz.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "bests",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "besting",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "bested",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "bested",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "en-conj",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "best",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "best (third-person singular simple present bests, present participle besting, simple past and past participle bested)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"name": "en-conj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "better"
},
{
"word": "bestest"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To surpass in skill or achievement."
],
"links": [
[
"surpass",
"surpass"
],
[
"skill",
"skill"
],
[
"achievement",
"achievement"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To surpass in skill or achievement."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1944 July and August, Charles E. Lee, “The \"City of Truro\"”, in Railway Magazine, pages 201–202:",
"text": "The Norddeutscher Lloyd steamship Kronprinz Wilhelm left New York on May 3 [1904], at 3.10 p.m. and reached Plymouth Sound on May 9 at 8 a.m. This was then a very fast crossing of the Atlantic, but it was not the record. The same ship had held the \"Blue Riband\" in 1902, but had been slightly bested by the Kaiser Wilhelm II, a larger vessel of the same line, in 1903, and that stood as the record until the Cunard Line secured the honours in 1909 with the Mauretania and held them for an unbroken period of 20 years.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2010, T. William Phillips, Restless Heart, page 16:",
"text": "\"You did not win because I was sloppy. You bested me, Uncle. I've never seen you fight like that before.”",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To beat in a contest."
],
"links": [
[
"beat",
"beat"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To beat in a contest."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɛst/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-best.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3a/En-us-best.ogg/En-us-best.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/En-us-best.ogg"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-best.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b5/En-au-best.ogg/En-au-best.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/En-au-best.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛst"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vzemam vrǎh nad",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "вземам връх над"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "porazit"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "slaan"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "overmeesteren"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "verslaan"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "overwinnen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "päihittää"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "battre"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "vaincre"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "surpasser"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "enfoncer"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "écraser"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "aplatir"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "dominer"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "défaire"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "übertreffen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "besiegen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "schlagen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "überlegen sein"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "superare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "dominare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "vincere"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "battere"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "tārū"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "slå"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prevzojtí",
"sense": "to beat",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "превзойти́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pobedítʹ",
"sense": "to beat",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "победи́ть"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "poraziť"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "sobrepasar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "superar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "vencer"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "rebasar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "derrotar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "aventajar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "besegra"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "aşmak"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to beat",
"word": "geçmek"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"best (disambiguation)"
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"categories": [
"English auxiliary verbs",
"English defective verbs",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English irregular verbs",
"English lemmas",
"English modal verbs",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 12 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ɛst",
"Rhymes:English/ɛst/1 syllable"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_text": "Shortening of had best",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb"
},
"expansion": "best",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English colloquialisms",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "It's getting late. You best get on home.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1935, Edward Joseph O'Brien, John Cournos, editors, The Best British Short Stories of 1935, page 37:",
"text": "'We best be going,' she said, looking at the clock.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Mary B. Morrison, Somebody's Gotta Be On Top:",
"text": "Brother, you best be gone when I return.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Had best."
],
"links": [
[
"Had best",
"had best"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(modal verb, colloquial) Had best."
],
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"modal",
"verb"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɛst/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-best.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3a/En-us-best.ogg/En-us-best.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/En-us-best.ogg"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-best.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b5/En-au-best.ogg/En-au-best.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/En-au-best.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛst"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"best (disambiguation)"
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"categories": [
"Middle Dutch entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle Dutch non-lemma forms",
"Middle Dutch superlative adjectives",
"Middle Dutch superlative adverbs",
"Middle Dutch terms derived from Old Dutch",
"Middle Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Middle Dutch terms inherited from Old Dutch",
"Middle Dutch terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Pages with 12 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "odt",
"3": "*betst"
},
"expansion": "Old Dutch *betst",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*batistaz"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *batistaz",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old Dutch *betst, from Proto-Germanic *batistaz.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "superlative adjective"
},
"expansion": "best",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Middle Dutch",
"lang_code": "dum",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Middle Dutch superlative adjectives"
],
"glosses": [
"best; superlative degree of goet"
],
"links": [
[
"best",
"best#English"
],
[
"goet",
"goet#Middle_Dutch"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/best/"
}
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"categories": [
"Middle Dutch entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle Dutch non-lemma forms",
"Middle Dutch superlative adjectives",
"Middle Dutch superlative adverbs",
"Middle Dutch terms derived from Old Dutch",
"Middle Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Middle Dutch terms inherited from Old Dutch",
"Middle Dutch terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Pages with 12 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "best"
},
"expansion": "Dutch: best\nAfrikaans: beste\nBerbice Creole Dutch: besti\nNegerhollands: bes, best\n→? Sranan Tongo: besi",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Dutch: best\nAfrikaans: beste\nBerbice Creole Dutch: besti\nNegerhollands: bes, best\n→? Sranan Tongo: besi"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "li",
"2": "bès"
},
"expansion": "Limburgish: bès",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Limburgish: bès"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "odt",
"3": "*betst"
},
"expansion": "Old Dutch *betst",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*batistaz"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *batistaz",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old Dutch *betst, from Proto-Germanic *batistaz.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "dum",
"2": "superlative adverb"
},
"expansion": "best",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Middle Dutch",
"lang_code": "dum",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Middle Dutch superlative adverbs"
],
"glosses": [
"best; superlative degree of wel"
],
"links": [
[
"best",
"best#English"
],
[
"wel",
"wel#Middle_Dutch"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/best/"
}
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"categories": [
"Middle English adjective forms",
"Middle English adverb forms",
"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English non-lemma forms",
"Middle English nouns",
"Middle English terms borrowed from Old French",
"Middle English terms derived from Old English",
"Middle English terms derived from Old French",
"Middle English terms inherited from Old English",
"Pages with 12 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "ang",
"3": "betst"
},
"expansion": "Old English betst",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old English betst, betest.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "adjective form"
},
"expansion": "best",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "beste"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of beste"
],
"links": [
[
"beste",
"beste#Middle_English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"categories": [
"Middle English adjective forms",
"Middle English adverb forms",
"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English non-lemma forms",
"Middle English nouns",
"Middle English terms borrowed from Old French",
"Middle English terms derived from Old English",
"Middle English terms derived from Old French",
"Middle English terms inherited from Old English",
"Pages with 12 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "ang",
"3": "betst"
},
"expansion": "Old English betst",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old English betst, betest.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "adverb form"
},
"expansion": "best",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "beste"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of beste"
],
"links": [
[
"beste",
"beste#Middle_English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"categories": [
"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English nouns",
"Middle English terms borrowed from Old French",
"Middle English terms derived from Old French",
"Pages with 12 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "fro",
"3": "beste"
},
"expansion": "Old French beste",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old French beste.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "best",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "beeste"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of beeste"
],
"links": [
[
"beeste",
"beeste#Middle_English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "frr",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "best",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "North Frisian",
"lang_code": "frr",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"North Frisian entries with incorrect language header",
"North Frisian non-lemma forms",
"North Frisian verb forms",
"Pages with 12 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "wiis"
}
],
"glosses": [
"second-person singular present of wiis"
],
"links": [
[
"wiis",
"wiis#North_Frisian"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
}
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 12 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "bestselger"
},
{
"word": "bestselgende"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nb",
"2": "non",
"3": "beztr"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse beztr",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old Norse beztr.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nb",
"2": "superlative adjective"
},
"expansion": "best",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"lang_code": "nb",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"extra": "best",
"word": "god"
}
],
"glosses": [
"indefinite singular superlative degree of god: best"
],
"links": [
[
"god",
"god#Norwegian_Bokmål"
],
[
"best",
"best#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"indefinite",
"singular",
"superlative"
]
},
{
"form_of": [
{
"extra": "best",
"word": "bra"
}
],
"glosses": [
"indefinite singular superlative degree of bra: best"
],
"links": [
[
"bra",
"bra#Norwegian_Bokmål"
],
[
"best",
"best#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"indefinite",
"singular",
"superlative"
]
}
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 12 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nn",
"2": "non",
"3": "beztr"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse beztr",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old Norse beztr.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nn",
"2": "superlative adjective"
},
"expansion": "best",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"lang_code": "nn",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"extra": "best",
"word": "god"
}
],
"glosses": [
"indefinite singular superlative degree of god: best"
],
"links": [
[
"god",
"god#Norwegian_Nynorsk"
],
[
"best",
"best#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"indefinite",
"singular",
"superlative"
]
},
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "bra"
}
],
"glosses": [
"indefinite singular superlative degree of bra"
],
"links": [
[
"bra",
"bra#Norwegian_Nynorsk"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"indefinite",
"singular",
"superlative"
]
}
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "best"
},
"expansion": "Low German: best",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Low German: best"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "osx",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*batistaz"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *batistaz",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Germanic *batistaz.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "osx",
"2": "superlative adverb"
},
"expansion": "best",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Old Saxon",
"lang_code": "osx",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Old Saxon entries with incorrect language header",
"Old Saxon non-lemma forms",
"Old Saxon superlative adverbs",
"Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Old Saxon terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Pages with 12 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"best"
],
"links": [
[
"best",
"best#English"
]
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "betst"
}
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pdt",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "best",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"lang_code": "pdt",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 12 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Plautdietsch entries with incorrect language header",
"Plautdietsch non-lemma forms",
"Plautdietsch verb forms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "sennen"
}
],
"glosses": [
"second-person singular present of sennen"
],
"links": [
[
"sennen",
"sennen#Plautdietsch"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
}
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "en",
"3": "best"
},
"expansion": "Unadapted borrowing from English best",
"name": "ubor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Unadapted borrowing from English best.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "bests",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "mfbysense",
"2": "#s"
},
"expansion": "best m or f by sense (plural bests)",
"name": "pt-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Brazilian Portuguese",
"Pages with 12 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Portuguese 1-syllable words",
"Portuguese 2-syllable words",
"Portuguese countable nouns",
"Portuguese endearing terms",
"Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
"Portuguese feminine nouns",
"Portuguese informal terms",
"Portuguese lemmas",
"Portuguese masculine and feminine nouns by sense",
"Portuguese masculine nouns",
"Portuguese nouns",
"Portuguese nouns with multiple genders",
"Portuguese terms borrowed from English",
"Portuguese terms derived from English",
"Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Portuguese unadapted borrowings from English",
"Rhymes:Portuguese/ɛsti",
"Rhymes:Portuguese/ɛsti/2 syllables",
"pt:Friendship",
"pt:People"
],
"glosses": [
"bestie (best friend)"
],
"links": [
[
"bestie",
"bestie#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Brazil, informal) bestie (best friend)"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "bestie"
},
{
"word": "BFF"
}
],
"tags": [
"Brazil",
"by-personal-gender",
"feminine",
"informal",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɛst͡ʃ/",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɛs.t͡ʃi/",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɛst͡ʃ/",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɛs.t͡ʃi/",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɛʃt͡ʃ/",
"tags": [
"Rio-de-Janeiro"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɛʃ.t͡ʃi/",
"tags": [
"Rio-de-Janeiro"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɛst͡ʃ/",
"tags": [
"Southern-Brazil"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛsti"
}
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 12 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Scots entries with incorrect language header",
"Scots lemmas",
"Scots non-lemma forms",
"Scots nouns",
"Scots superlative adjectives"
],
"derived": [
{
"english": "best of a bad lot, best of a poor selection",
"word": "ill-best"
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "superlative adjective"
},
"expansion": "best",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Scots superlative adjectives"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "guid"
}
],
"glosses": [
"superlative degree of guid"
],
"links": [
[
"guid",
"guid#Scots"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"superlative"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[bɛst]"
}
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 12 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Scots entries with incorrect language header",
"Scots lemmas",
"Scots non-lemma forms",
"Scots nouns",
"Scots superlative adjectives"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "bests",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"10": "",
"2": "noun",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "plural",
"6": "bests",
"7": "",
"8": "",
"9": "",
"cat2": "",
"cat3": "",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "best (plural bests)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "best (plural bests)",
"name": "sco-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"groomsman"
],
"links": [
[
"groomsman",
"groomsman"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[bɛst]"
}
],
"word": "best"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "la",
"3": "bēstia"
},
"expansion": "Latin bēstia",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Ultimately from Latin bēstia.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "sv-infl-noun-c-ar",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "best",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "besten",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "bestar",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "bestarna",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "bests",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "bestens",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "bestars",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "bestarnas",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "nouns",
"3": "",
"g": "c",
"g2": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "best c",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "c"
},
"expansion": "best c",
"name": "sv-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"name": "sv-infl-noun-c-ar"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "best",
"2": "besten",
"3": "bestar",
"4": "bestarna",
"5": "bests",
"6": "bestens",
"7": "bestars",
"8": "bestarnas",
"base": "best",
"definitions": "",
"gender": "Common"
},
"name": "sv-decl-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 12 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Swedish common-gender nouns",
"Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
"Swedish lemmas",
"Swedish nouns",
"Swedish terms derived from Latin",
"Swedish terms with homophones"
],
"glosses": [
"beast"
],
"links": [
[
"beast",
"beast"
]
],
"tags": [
"common-gender"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"homophone": "bäst"
}
],
"word": "best"
}
Download raw JSONL data for best meaning in All languages combined (63.5kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). 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.