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finest

adjectivenouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈfaɪnɪst//

Police officers.

adjective

  1. 1

    Also a form of finesuperlative form of fine: most fine

    This is the finest wine you can get here.

    Use the finest sandpaper available.

    From time to time the coaches of the Lötschberg Railway itself, which in comfort and décor can rank with the finest in Europe today, travel far from the frontiers of Switzerland on through workings such as these.

noun

  1. 1

    informalPolice officers.

    Fifty of New York's finest were on hand for security.

  2. 2

    informalMembers of the military.

    1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Told him I'd had a fun time with a sailor & he said, "Oh no! Are you corrupting our country's finest?"

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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