mieux

French

Etymology

From Middle French mieulx, from Old French mielz, mialz, miels, from Latin melius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mjø/

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Adverb

mieux

1. comparative degree of bien; better

Noun

mieux m (plural mieux)

1. the best of one's ability, best
   • 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche‎^{fr.Wikisource}, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Volume I, Chapter II:

     À ces sottises, il en ajoutait cent autres, toutes à la manière de celles que ses livres lui avaient apprises, imitant de son mieux leur langage.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

     To these foolish sayings, he added a hundred others, all in the manner of those that his books had taught him, imitating to the best of his ability their language.

Related terms

• meilleur

Further reading

• “mieux”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.