greatest
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡɹeɪtɪst/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪtɪst
- Hyphenation: great‧est
Adjective
greatest
- superlative form of great: most great
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
- Caliban: […] I never saw a woman / But only Sycorax, my dam, and she; / But she as far surpasseth Sycorax / As great'st does least.
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