best
/bɛst/ noun C2- The supreme effort one can make, or has made. · I did my best.· My personal best in that race is eighteen minutes, four seconds.
- One's best behavior. · I was somewhat distant lately, and my lady promised me head every Tuesday of the week when I’m nice to her, so I better be on my best.
- The person (or persons; or thing or things) that is (are) most excellent. · Even the best of us makes mistakes, but only a few with the best of intentions...· We're (the) best of friends, who fortunately enjoy the best of health.
Plural bests
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He had been thinking what was best to be done, and now he asked the Woodman to chop away the end of the tree that rested on their side of the ditch.
“I shall take the heart,” returned the Tin Woodman; “for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.”
Thereupon the Wicked Witch enchanted my axe, and when I was chopping away at my best one day, for I was anxious to get the new house and my wife as soon as possible, the axe slipped all at once and cut off my left leg.
“But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world.”
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