least
Signification (English)
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The most little; the smallest amount or quantity of something.
Concepts
Synonyms
to the lowest degree
most terrible
small part
become small
very little
very small
most minute
the faintest
the slightest
smalest
Fréquence
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/liːst/
Étymologie (English)
In summary
From Middle English leste, lest, last, from Old English lǣst, a contraction of læsast, læsest, lærest (“least”), from Proto-Germanic *laisistaz (“smallest; least”), related to Old English læs (“less”). Cognate with Old Frisian leist, Old Saxon lēs. More at less.
Nouveau
little
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- Small in size.
- Small in size.
- Insignificant, trivial.
- Insignificant, trivial.
- Very young, of childhood age.
- Younger.
- Used with the name of a place, especially of a country or its capital, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place.
- Used with the name of a place, especially of a country or its capital, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place.
- Having few members.
- Operating on a small scale.
- Short in duration; brief.
- Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow, shallow, contracted; mean, illiberal, ungenerous.
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