"outermost" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈaʊtɚmoʊst/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-outermost.wav [US]
Etymology: From Middle English uttermost, uttirmest, uttermast, outemast, alteration (due to Middle English outre (“outer”)) of Old English ūtemest, ȳtemest (“outermost”), equivalent to outer + -most. Doublet of uttermost. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|uttermost}} Middle English uttermost, {{m|enm|uttirmest}} uttirmest, {{m|enm|uttermast}} uttermast, {{m|enm|outemast}} outemast, {{cog|enm|outre|t=outer}} Middle English outre (“outer”), {{inh|en|ang|ūtemest}} Old English ūtemest, {{m|ang|ȳtemest|t=outermost}} ȳtemest (“outermost”), {{suf|en|outer|most}} outer + -most, {{doublet|en|uttermost}} Doublet of uttermost Head templates: {{head|en|superlative adjective}} outermost
  1. superlative form of outer: most outer Tags: form-of, superlative Form of: outer (extra: most outer) Synonyms: extimate [obsolete, rare], uttermost Related terms: outermore Translations (farthest outside): ἐξώτατος (exṓtatos) (Ancient Greek), νέατος (néatos) (Ancient Greek), buitenst (Dutch), ulommainen (Finnish), laitimmainen (Finnish), äußerst (German), estremo (Italian), extimus (Latin), yttersta (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-outermost-en-adj-kRQnVTRQ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 54

Noun

IPA: /ˈaʊtɚmoʊst/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-outermost.wav [US] Forms: outermosts [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English uttermost, uttirmest, uttermast, outemast, alteration (due to Middle English outre (“outer”)) of Old English ūtemest, ȳtemest (“outermost”), equivalent to outer + -most. Doublet of uttermost. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|uttermost}} Middle English uttermost, {{m|enm|uttirmest}} uttirmest, {{m|enm|uttermast}} uttermast, {{m|enm|outemast}} outemast, {{cog|enm|outre|t=outer}} Middle English outre (“outer”), {{inh|en|ang|ūtemest}} Old English ūtemest, {{m|ang|ȳtemest|t=outermost}} ȳtemest (“outermost”), {{suf|en|outer|most}} outer + -most, {{doublet|en|uttermost}} Doublet of uttermost Head templates: {{en-noun}} outermost (plural outermosts)
  1. That which is outermost; the surface; the outside.
    Sense id: en-outermost-en-noun-T3WSs1TD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -most Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 54 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -most: 31 69

Inflected forms

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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.