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# closest

«closest» in Mova's school dictionary: **the nearest of all** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (close, closer, closest); adverb (closest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Closest means the nearest of all. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/closest/#m1)

2) Closest can mean the nearest in amount, the number with the smallest difference. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/closest/#m2)

3) A closest friend is the friend you are nearest to. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/closest/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

maths: the smallest distance, or the number nearest to another (rounding, estimating); geography: the closest town or star; everyday life: the closest shop, the closest exit; safety: know where the closest fire exit is

### examples

- Which town is closest to the lake? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/closest/#x1)
- Round 47 to the closest ten. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/closest/#x2)
- Which number is closest to 100: 96 or 105? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/closest/#x3)
- The closest store is 2 miles away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/closest/#x4)
- The Sun is the star closest to Earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/closest/#x5)
- Walk to the closest exit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/closest/#x6)
- Her guess was the closest to the real number. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/closest/#x7)
- Tom is my closest friend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/closest/#x8)
- I am quite sure we shall become the closest of friends." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/closest/#x9)

### note

Compare the differences and choose the smallest. Trap: closest is about difference, not about which number is bigger (100 − 96 = 4 and 105 − 100 = 5, so 96 is closer). The superlative of «close» (near), said «klohs-est».

### In the corpora

- [Crocodile ancestors lived alongside dinosaurs over 200 million years ago, and crocodiles are the closest living relatives of birds.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/29-crocodiles-and-alligators/12/)
- [The closest living relatives of hippos are whales and dolphins.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches/7/)
- [A hippo's closest living relatives are whales and dolphins, not pigs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes/12/)
- [Mammoths were close relatives of today's elephants, closest of all to the Asian elephant, as scientists found by comparing DNA.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths/12/)
- [The closest living land relatives of whales are hippos, and a whale's flipper has the same bones as your arm and hand.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/235-animal-minds-dolphins-names-orca-grandmothers-and-whale-songs/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «closest» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/closest/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.