Definition/Meaning of most

• English - Determiner: most Superlative form of much . Most people like chocolate . Most simply choose to ignore it . Most want the best for their children . Synonyms almost all Translations
• English - Adverb: most ( not comparable ) Superlative form of many . Most bakers and dairy farmers have to get up early . 1893 , Walter Besant , The Ivory Gate , chapterIII: At half-past nine on this Saturday evening , the parlour of the Salutation Inn , High Holborn , contained most of its customary visitors . [ … ] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle , a club , or…
• English - Noun: most ( usually uncountable , plural mosts ) ( uncountable ) The greatest amount . The most I can offer for the house is $150, 000 . ( countable ) A record-setting amount . Usage notes In the sense of record , used when the positive denotation of best does not apply .
• English - Etymology: From Middle English most , moste , from Old English mǣst , māst , from Proto-Germanic *maistaz , *maist . Cognate with West Frisian meast , Dutch meest , German meist , Danish and Swedish mest , Icelandic mestur .
• English - Pronunciation: ( UK ) enPR: mōst , IPA (key) : /məʊst/ ( US ) enPR: mōst , IPA (key) : /moʊst/ Rhymes: -əʊst