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closest
CEFRA1
/ˈkləʊ.sɪst/
adjective
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In plain English
- 01
adjective
Nearest in distance, time, or relationship.
- 02
adjective
Extra detailsecond-person singular simple present indicative of close
Examples
Please tell me the closest station to your office.
We number him among our closest friends.
At a glance
Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 3
- Parts of speech
- 1
- Citations
- 2
Also pronounced
- /ˈkloʊ.sɪst/
Deep Dive
adjective
Extra meaningsuperlative form of close: most close.
More examples
In contextAs the rest of the film was made on location in the railway yards of Havre and not in a studio, and was given a sound-track of penetrating vividness, this whole production gives the closest possible ring of truth of any film about railways.
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;...
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[…]
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