Topmost
['tɒpməʊst] or ['tɑpmost]
Definition
(adj.) at or nearest to the top; 'the uppermost book in the pile'; 'on the topmost step' .
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Definition
(a.) Highest; uppermost; as, the topmost cliff; the topmost branch of a tree.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Uppermost, highest.
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Examples
- The head of the topmost warrior towered over forty feet from the ground. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- See and do that; and take out the topmost paper--Last Will and Testament--big printed. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- On that day I ascended St. Peter's, and carved on its topmost stone the aera 2100, last year of the world! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It was low in the heavens, and I calculated that in less than an hour it would lie just above the topmost branches of the old oak. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I knew that Powell would need me now if ever, and I instantly urged my horse to his topmost speed up the narrow and difficult mountain trail. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- In the patient solving of tremendous problems he had toiled up the mountain-side of success--scaling its topmost peak and obtaining a view of the boundless prospect. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In this way, with ten warriors, I built a series of three steps from the ground to the shoulders of the topmost man. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- On the topmost pinnacle of Gibraltar we halted a good while, and no doubt the mules were tired. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- San Paolo be my witness that did ye but find the stout Count Leonardo in his cups, sheer from the castle's topmost battlements would he hurl ye all! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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