closest

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Adjective

closest

  1. superlative form of close: most close.
    • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Romance and Reality. , volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, page 93:
      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;...
    • 1992, Rudolf M Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 4:
      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 []

Verb

closest

  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present indicative of close

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