Definition of Best

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Definition of Best

Best

Having good qualities in the highest degree; most good, kind, desirable, suitable, etc.; most excellent; as, the best man; the best road; the best cloth; the best abilities.

Most advanced; most correct or complete; as, the best scholar; the best view of a subject.

Most; largest; as, the best part of a week.

Utmost; highest endeavor or state; most nearly perfect thing, or being, or action; as, to do one's best; to the best of our ability.

In the highest degree; beyond all others.

To the most advantage; with the most success, case, profit, benefit, or propriety.

Most intimately; most thoroughly or correctly; as, what is expedient is best known to himself.

To get the better of.

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Best Quotations

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.
Mother Teresa

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
Buddha

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Buddha

He who knows best knows how little he knows.
Thomas Jefferson

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
Thomas Jefferson

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
Thomas Jefferson

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
Thomas Jefferson

Sleep is the best meditation.
Dalai Lama

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Dalai Lama

Best Translations

best in Afrikaans is beste
best in Danish is bedst
best in Dutch is best
best in French is mieux
best in German is beste, am besten, bester
best in Italian is migliore
best in Portuguese is melhor
best in Spanish is querido

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