most

Meanings

1. 1
   det

   Nearly all of a group; more than half.

   Most bakers have to get up early in the morning.

2. 2
   det

   The largest number or amount of something.

   The team with the most points wins the game.

3. 3
   adv

   Used to form the superlative of longer adjectives and adverbs.

   This is the most important example in the book.

4. 4
   adv

   To a very great degree; extremely.

   That was a most unusual thing to say.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-der. Proto-Germanic *maiz Proto-Germanic *maistaz Proto-Germanic *maist Proto-West Germanic *maist Old English mǣst Middle English English most From Middle English most, moste, from Old English mǣst, māst, from Proto-Germanic *maistaz, *maist. Cognate with Scots mast, maist (“most”), Saterland Frisian maast (“most”), West Frisian meast (“most”), Dutch meest (“most”), German meist (“most”), Danish and Swedish mest (“most”), Icelandic mestur (“most”).

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