nearest and dearest

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈnɪəɹɪst(ə)n ˈdɪəɹɪst/    美 /ˈnɪɹɪst(ə)n ˈdɪɹɪst/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One's closest and most intimate family members, friends, etc. idiomatic,plural,plural-only
    — [W]hile all mourned and honoured the dead, thou hast lived to merit our hate and execration—lived to unite thyself with the vile tyrant who murdered thy nearest and dearest— […]
形容词 adj.
  1. Closest, most intimate.
    — Petronius calleth this paſſion [i.e., jealousy] amantium furioſam æmulationem, a furious emulation, and their ſymptomes are well expreſſed by Sʳ Ieffrey Chaucer in his firſt Canterbury tale. It will make the neareſt & deareſt friends fall out; they will endure al other things to be common, goods, lands, moneyes, participate of all other pleaſures, and take in good part any diſgraces, iniuries in another kind, but as Propertius well deſcribes it in an Elegie of his, in this they will ſuffer nothing, have no corriuals.

词形变化

form only superlative

词源

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The adjective sense appears to predate the noun sense.
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The adjective sense appears to predate the noun sense.
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