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Etymology [edit]
From Middle English, from Old English eallmǣst (“nearly all, almost, for the most part”), equivalent to all- + most.
Pronunciation [edit]
- (UK) IPA: /ɔːl.ˈməʊst/, /ˈɔːl.məʊst/, X-SAMPA: /"O:l.m@Ust/, /O:l"m@Ust/
- (US) IPA: /ˈɔl.moʊst/, /ˈɑɫ.moʊst/, X-SAMPA: /"Ol.moUst/
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- Hyphenation: al‧most
Adverb [edit]
almost (not comparable)
- Very close to, but not quite.
- 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:
- In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
- Almost all people went there. - Not all but very close to it.
- We almost missed the train. - Not missed but very close to it.
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Translations [edit]
very close to
- Ainu: ナアニ (naani), ナアニフンコ (naanihunko), ナアニポ (naanipo)
- Arabic: تقريبًا (ar) (taqrīban)
- Aragonese: quasi (an)
- Armenian: համարյա (hy) (hamarya), գրեթե (hy) (gret'e)
- Asturian: cuasi (ast), casi (ast)
- Azeri: az qala (az), az qaldı (az)
- Belarusian: амаль (be) (amálʹ)
- Breton: hogos, hogozik
- Bulgarian: почти (bg) (počtí)
- Catalan: gairebé (ca), quasi (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 幾乎 (cmn), 几乎 (cmn) (jīhū), 差點 (cmn), 差点 (cmn) (chàdiǎn), 差一點 (cmn), 差一点 (cmn) (chāyīdiǎn), 差不多 (cmn) (chàbuduō)
- Czech: skoro (cs), téměř (cs)
- Danish: næsten (da)
- Dutch: bijna (nl), nagenoeg (nl), vrijwel (nl), zo goed als (nl)
- Esperanto: preskaŭ (eo)
- Estonian: peaaegu (et)
- Faroese: næstan (fo)
- Finnish: lähes (fi), melkein (fi), miltei (fi), liki (fi)
- French: presque (fr)
- Galician: case (gl)
- Georgian: თითქმის (ka) (t’it’k’mis)
- German: fast (de), beinahe (de), so gut wie (de)
- Greek: σχεδόν (el) (schedón)
- Hebrew: כִּמְעַט (he) (kim'át)
- Hindi: लगभग (hi) (lagabhag)
- Hungarian: majdnem (hu)
- Ido: preske (io)
- Indonesian: hampir, nyaris
- Irish: beagnach (ga)
- Italian: quasi (it)
- Jamaican Creole: aalmos
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- Japanese: ほとんど (ja) (hotondo)
- Kazakh: дерлік (kk) (derlik)
- Khmer: ជិត (km) (cɨt), ស្ទើរតែ (km) (stǝǝ tae)
- Korean: 거의 (ko) (geoui)
- Macedonian: речиси (mk) (réčisi), скоро (mk) (skóro)
- Latgalian: kuoni, gondreiž
- Latin: paene (la), fere (la)
- Latvian: gandrīz (lv)
- Lithuanian: beveik (lt)
- Maltese: kważi (mt)
- Mirandese: quaije
- Navajo: kʼasdą́ą́
- Norwegian: nesten (no)
- Occitan: gaireben (oc), quasi (oc), quasiben (oc), quasiment (oc)
- Persian: تقریباً (fa) (taqriban)
- Polish: prawie (pl)
- Portuguese: quase (pt)
- Romanian: aproape (ro)
- Russian: почти (ru) (počtí)
- Scots: awmaist, amaist
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: скоро (sh)
- Roman: skoro (sh)
- Slovak: skoro (sk), takmer (sk)
- Slovene: skôraj (sl)
- Spanish: casi (es)
- Swedish: nästan (sv)
- Telugu: దాదాపు (te) (dādāpu), దరిదాపు (te) (daridāpu)
- Thai: เกือบจะ (th) (gèuap jà)
- Tok Pisin: klosap
- Turkish: neredeyse (tr)
- Ukrainian: майже (uk) (májže), сливе (uk) (slyvé)
- Vietnamese: gần (vi), gần như (vi)
- West Frisian: hast (fy)
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almost (plural almosts)
- (informal) Something or someone that doesn't quite make it.
- In all the submissions, they found four papers that were clearly worth publishing and another dozen almosts.
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