ALMOST


Meaning of ALMOST in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ɔ:lmoʊst ]

Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.

You use almost to indicate that something is not completely the case but is nearly the case.

The couple had been dating for almost three years...

Storms have been hitting almost all of Britain recently...

The effect is almost impossible to describe...

The arrested man will almost certainly be kept at this police station...

He contracted Spanish flu, which almost killed him.

= nearly

ADV : ADV group , ADV before v

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