almost

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English

Alternative forms

• aulmos (Jamaican English)

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old English eallmǣst (“nearly all, almost, for the most part”), equivalent to all- +‎ most.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ɔːlˈməʊst/, /ˈɔːl.məʊst/, SAMPA: /"O:l.m@Ust/, /O:l"m@Ust/
• (US) IPA: /ˈɔl.moʊst/, /ˈɑɫ.moʊst/, SAMPA: /"Ol.moUst/

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• Hyphenation: al‧most

Adverb

almost (not comparable)

1. Very close
   • Almost all people went there. - Not all but very close to it.
   • We almost missed the train. - Not missed but very close to it.
2. Not quite

Synonyms

• (very close, not quite): nearly
• (very close): nigh

Translations

very close to

Arabic: تقريباً (ar) (taqriiban) Armenian: համարյա (hy) (hamarya), գրեթե (hy) (gret'e) Breton: hogos, hogozik Bulgarian: почти (bg) 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) Croatian: skoro (hr) Czech: skoro (cs), téměř (cs) Danish: næsten (da) Dutch: bijna, nagenoeg, vrijwel, zo goed als Esperanto: preskaŭ (eo) Estonian: Peaaegu Finnish: lähes (fi), melkein (fi), miltei (fi), liki (fi) French: presque (fr) German: fast (de) Greek: σχεδόν (skhedón) Hungarian: majdnem (hu) Ido: preske (io) Indonesian: hampir, nyaris Italian: quasi (it)

Jamaican Creole: aalmos Japanese: ほとんど (ja) (hotondo) Kazakh: дерлік, (derlik), (دەرلىك) Korean: 거의 (ko) Latin: paene (la), fere (la) Latvian: gandrīz Maltese: kważi Norwegian: nesten (no) Polish: prawie (pl) Portuguese: quase (pt) Romanian: aproape (ro) Russian: почти (ru) (počtí) Scots: awmaist (sco), amaist Slovene: skoraj (sl) Spanish: casi (es) Swedish: nästan (sv) Telugu: దాదాపు, దరిదాపు Tok Pisin: klosap Turkish: neredeyse (tr) Ukrainian: майже (májže), сливе (slyvé) Vietnamese: gần (như) West Frisian: hast (fy)

Noun

almost (plural almosts)

1. (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.

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: gave · asked · soon · #216: almost · thou · full · country

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