closest
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkləʊ.sɪst/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkloʊ.sɪst/
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Adjective edit
closest
- superlative form of close: most close.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 93:
- In sober seriousness, there is more poetry than truth in the sweet poem of Allan Cunningham—the Town and Country Child: witness the cheerful voices of the rosy faces to be met with in the smallest street and closest alley in London;...
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 4:
- The closest affinities of the Jubulaceae are with the Lejeuneaceae. The two families share in common: (a) elaters usually 1-spiral, trumpet-shaped and fixed to the capsule valves, distally […]
Verb edit
closest
- (archaic) second-person singular simple present indicative of close