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# closest

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

«closest» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Closest means the nearest of all. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/closest/#m2)
3. A closest friend is the friend you are nearest to. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/closest/#m3)

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «closest» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/closest/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«closest» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/closest.html) on Mova free.