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Definition of Greatest
1. Adjective. Highest in quality.
Definition of Greatest
1. Adjective. (superlative of great lang=English POS=adjective) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Greatest
1. great [adj] - See also: great
Lexicographical Neighbors of Greatest
Literary usage of Greatest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thucydides Translated Into English by Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides (1881)
"And, though men will always judge any war in which they are actually fighting to
be the greatest at the time, but, after it is over, revert to their ..."
2. A Manual of the Principles and Practice of Road-making: Comprising the by William Mitchell Gillespie (1847)
"LINE OF greatest SLOPE. Fig. 16. If the ridge AB of a range of hills be ...
CD is therefore the line of greatest slope, and consequently of quickest descent ..."
3. Modern Music and Musicians by Louis Charles Elson (1918)
"N attempting to present to the musical public for the first time an authoritative
list of one hundred of the world's greatest piano pieces, in harmony with ..."
4. The Audacious War by Clarence Walker Barron (1915)
"THE war of is not only the greatest war in history but the greatest in the ...
Indeed, it is the greatest war of all the sciences, for it involves all the ..."
5. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1860)
"greatest man in the world that hates him ; Shame, depart, thou art an enemy to
my salvation! Shall I entertain thee against my sovereign Lord ? how then ..."
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