Usually means: Most effective or desirable qualities.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word best:

General (32 matching dictionaries)
  1. Best, best, (all) the best, the best: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. best: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. best: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. best, the best: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Best, best: Vocabulary.com
  6. Best, Best, Best, Best, Best, be'st, best: Wordnik
  7. best: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Best, best: Wiktionary
  9. best: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. best: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. best: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Best: Dictionary.com
  13. best: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. best: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Best: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. best: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. best: Rhymezone
  19. best, best: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. best: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Best: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. best: Free Dictionary
  23. best: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Best, best: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. Best: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. best: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. best: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Best: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. BEST: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. BEST: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. best: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. best, best, best, best: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. B.E.S.T, Best, THE BEST, The best: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See well as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Most; largest.
adjective:  Most superior; most favorable.
adverb:  To the most advantage; with the most success, cause, profit, benefit, or propriety.
noun:  (uncountable) The supreme effort one can make, or has made.
noun:  (uncountable) One's best behavior.
noun:  (countable) The person (or persons; or thing or things) that is (are) most excellent.
verb:  To surpass in skill or achievement.
verb:  (transitive) To beat in a contest.
verb:  (modal verb, colloquial) Had best.
noun:  A surname.

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