bests

English

Etymology

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɛsts/
  • Rhymes: -ɛsts

Interjection

bests

  1. (rare) A polite, formulaic end to a letter or email.

Noun

bests

  1. plural of best
    • 2010, Hunter Allen, Andrew Coggan, Training and Racing with a Power Meter, 2nd Ed., →ISBN link
      By plotting all of your bests over the entire selected time span, you can grasp the rate of your wattage decay as the duration of the effort increases[.]

Verb

bests

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of best

References

  1. ^ sfpic (6 July 2012) “Letter: Closing - 'Best,' vs. 'Bests,'”, in WordReference.com‎[1], archived from the original on 22 June 2023:
    "Bests" is a relic from when e-mail and text messaging was shiny and new. "Bests" meant "Best regards and best wishes" in one. This affectation was pretty popular for a while. It went out of fashion maybe 10 or 15 years ago. In other words, some day in the future, there will be a thread asking, "What did LOL used to mean?"

Portuguese

Noun

bests

  1. plural of best

Swedish

Noun

bests

  1. indefinite genitive singular of best
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