How to Spell best
best
best - adjective
- Excelling all others
- Most productive of good : offering or producing the greatest advantage, utility, or satisfaction
- Most, largest
Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary API
"the best student in the class"
Etymology
Middle English best, beste, going back to Old English betst, best, (as weak adjective) betsta, betesta, going back to Germanic *batista-, superlative degree of the adjective seen in the comparative *batizōn better:1, whence also Old Frisian best, bēst "best," Old Saxon betst, best, Old High German bezzisto, Old Icelandic beztr, baztr, Gothic batista