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# topmost

«topmost» in Mova's school dictionary: **highest, at the very top of something** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Topmost means highest, at the very top of something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/topmost/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, the topmost branch or boughs is the highest part of the tree, where the treasure or flag hangs

### examples

- The handkerchief fluttered from the topmost branch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/topmost/#x1)
- The cherries grew on the topmost twig. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/topmost/#x2)
- She climbed to the topmost step. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/topmost/#x3)
- The gold hung from the topmost boughs of the oak. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/topmost/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths; it names a position (the highest), not an amount.

### In the corpora

- [And behold the topmost of the stars, how high they are!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.581/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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