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# greatest

«greatest» in Mova's school dictionary: **the biggest or the most 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 (great, greater, greatest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Greatest means the biggest or the most of all. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greatest/#m1)

2) Greatest also means the best or most important: the greatest player of all time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greatest/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: asks for the largest number or amount; compare all; part of «greatest common divisor» (also called greatest common factor); «greatest number of equal groups» uses it; «greatest 3-digit number» is 999. In history and stories: the greatest inventors, the greatest adventure. Phrases: the greatest, greatest common factor, greatest common divisor, greatest of all.

### examples

- Which number is the greatest? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greatest/#x1)
- Find the greatest number of equal groups. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greatest/#x2)
- The greatest score was 95. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greatest/#x3)
- What is the greatest 3-digit number? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greatest/#x4)
- Order the numbers from greatest to least. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greatest/#x5)
- The blue whale is the greatest animal that ever lived. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greatest/#x6)
- Some say she is the greatest tennis player ever. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greatest/#x7)
- The greatest common factor of 12 and 18 is 6. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greatest/#x8)
- It is one of my greatest pleasures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/greatest/#x9)

### note

Superlative of «great»: great, greater, greatest. In maths «greater than» is the sign >. Asks for the largest; compare all. In «greatest number of groups» look for the greatest common divisor. Trap: «greatest» is not «total».

### In the corpora

- [Badger and the Rat kept «staring at each other with their mouths open; and this gave him the greatest satisfaction».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/73-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad/26/)
- [Egypt is mostly desert, yet one of the greatest civilisations grew there, all thanks to one river, the Nile.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/0/)
- [Mei says the First Emperor was the greatest ruler ever; the teacher says he was a tyrant.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/52-china-the-first-emperor-the-terracotta-army-and-the-great-wall/0/)
- [Danylo says Ukraine is the oldest and greatest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/60-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china/1/)
- [Your tap and your toilet are among the greatest life-savers ever invented, even if no game gives them a wonder.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/73-cities-why-they-grow-and-how-sewers-made-them-safe/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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