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• UK: /ˈɔːl.məʊst/
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• UK: /ɔːlˈməʊst/ emphatic, utterance-final
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• /ˈɔː(l)məs/ colloquial, unaccented
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• US: /ˈɔl.moʊst/
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• US: /ˈɑl.moʊst/
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• US: /ˈoʊ.moʊst/
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• Canada: [ˈɒɫmoʊst]
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• Australian: /ˈoːlməʉst/
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• Australian: [ˈoːɫməʉst]
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• Australian: [ˈoːwməʉst]
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• Australian: /əʉməʉst/
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• rhymes with -əʊst
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• CMU ARPABET: AO1 L M OW2 S T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2el-der.? Proto-Indo-European *h2elnós Proto-Germanic *allaz Proto-Germanic *ala- Proto-West Germanic *ala- Old English æl- Proto-Indo-European *meh2-der. Proto-Germanic *maiz Proto-Germanic *maistaz Proto-Germanic *maist Proto-West Germanic *maist Old English mǣst Old English eallmǣst Middle English almost English almost From Middle English almost, from Old English eallmǣst (“nearly all, almost, for the most part”), equivalent to al- (“all”) + most.

208 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: amper — very close to
• Afrikaans: byna — very close to
• Ainu: ナアニ (naani) — very close to
• Ainu: ナアニフンコ (naanihunko) — very close to
• Ainu: ナアニポ (naanipo) — very close to
• Albanian: pothuajse — very close to
• Albanian: gati — very close to
• Aleut: hizax — very close to
• Arabic: تَقْرِيبًا (taqrīban) — very close to
• Arabic: عَلَى وَشْك (ʕalā wašk) — very close to
• Arabic: كَادَ (kāda) — very close to
• Aragonese: quasi — very close to
• Armenian: համարյա (hamarya) — very close to
• Armenian: գրեթե (gretʻe) — very close to
• Asturian: cuasi — very close to
• Asturian: casi — very close to
• Azerbaijani: az qala — very close to
• Azerbaijani: az qaldı — very close to
• Basque: ia — very close to
• Belarusian: ама́ль (amálʹ) — very close to
• Belarusian: няма́ль (njamálʹ) — very close to
• Bengali: প্রায় (praẏ) — very close to
• Breton: hogos — very close to
• Breton: hogozik — very close to
• Bulgarian: почти́ (počtí) — very close to
• Burmese: လုနီးပါး (lu.ni:pa:) — very close to
• Catalan: gairebé — very close to
• Catalan: quasi — very close to
• Cheyenne: tó'ease- — very close to
• Chinese Mandarin: 幾乎 /几乎 (jīhū) — very close to
• Chinese Mandarin: 差點 /差点 (chàdiǎn) — very close to
• Chinese Mandarin: 差一點 /差一点 (chāyīdiǎn) — very close to
• Chinese Mandarin: 差不多 (chàbuduō) — very close to
• Czech: skoro — very close to
• Czech: téměř — very close to
• Danish: næsten — very close to
• Danish: være lige ved at — very close to
• Danish: nærved — very close to
• Dutch: bijna — very close to
• Dutch: nagenoeg — very close to
• Dutch: vrijwel — very close to
• Dutch: zo goed als — very close to
• Esperanto: preskaŭ — very close to
• Estonian: peaaegu — very close to
• Extremaduran: cuasi — very close to
• Extremaduran: abati — very close to
• Faroese: næstan — very close to
• Finnish: melkein — very close to
• Finnish: lähes — very close to
• Finnish: miltei — very close to
• Finnish: liki — very close to
• French: presque — very close to
• French: quasiment — very close to
• West-Frisian: hast — very close to
• Galician: case — very close to
• Georgian: თითქმის (titkmis) — very close to
• Georgian: ლამის (lamis) — very close to
• German: fast — very close to
• German: beinahe — very close to
• German: so gut wie — very close to
• German: schier — very close to
• Greek: σχεδόν (schedón) — very close to
• Greek: παραλίγο (paralígo) — very close to
• Ancient Greek: σχεδόν (skhedón) — very close to
• Ancient Greek: ὀλίγου δεῖν (olígou deîn) — very close to
• Ancient Greek: ὀλίγου (olígou) — very close to
• Greenlandic: -ngajak — very close to
• Hebrew: כִּמְעַט (kim'át) — very close to
• Hindi: लगभग (lagbhag) — very close to
• Hindi: तक़रीबन (taqrīban) — very close to
• Hindi: प्राय (prāy) — very close to
• Hindi: प्रायः (prāyaḥ) — very close to
• Hungarian: majdnem — very close to
• Hungarian: közel — very close to
• Icelandic: næstum því — very close to
• Icelandic: næstum — very close to
• Ido: preske — very close to
• Indonesian: hampir — very close to
• Indonesian: nyaris — very close to
• Ingrian: melkeen — very close to
• Irish: beagnach — very close to
• Irish: dóbair — very close to
• Italian: quasi — very close to
• Jamaican Creole: aalmos — very close to
• Japanese: ほとんど (hotondo) — very close to
• Japanese: ほぼ (hobo) — very close to
• Japanese: 大方 (ōkata) — very close to
• Kazakh: дерлік (derlık) — very close to
• Khmer: ជិត (cɨt) — very close to
• Khmer: ស្ទើរតែ (stǝǝ tae) — very close to
• Korean: 거의 (geoui) — very close to
• Korean: 뻔하다 (ppeonhada) — very close to
• Northern Kurdish: teqrîben — very close to
• Northern Kurdish: nêzîkî — very close to
• Northern Kurdish: hema-hema — very close to
• Kyrgyz: дээрлик (deerlik) — very close to
• Lao: ເກືອບ (kư̄ap) — very close to
• Latgalian: kuoni — very close to
• Latgalian: gondreiž — very close to
• Latin: paene — very close to
• Latin: ferē — very close to
• Latvian: gandrīz — very close to
• Lithuanian: beveik — very close to
• Macedonian: речиси (rečisi) — very close to
• Macedonian: скоро (skoro) — very close to
• Macedonian: безмалку (bezmalku) — very close to
• Malagasy: saiky — very close to
• Maltese: kważi — very close to
• Māori: pitoiti — very close to
• Māori: pitopitoiti — very close to
• Māori: tata — very close to
• Māori: kainamu — very close to
• Māori: tōtahi — very close to
• Mirandese: quaije — very close to
• Mongolian: бараг (barag) — very close to
• Mongolian: мөлтөс (möltös) — very close to
• Mongolian: шахам (šaxam) — very close to
• Navajo: kʼasdą́ą́ʼ — very close to
• Navajo: kʼadę́ę — very close to
• Norwegian Bokmål: nesten — very close to
• Norwegian Bokmål: bortimot — very close to
• Norwegian Nynorsk: nesten — very close to
• Norwegian Nynorsk: bortimot — very close to
• Occitan: gaireben — very close to
• Occitan: quasi — very close to
• Occitan: quasiben — very close to
• Occitan: quasiment — very close to
• Old English: fulnēah — very close to
• Old Norse: nær svá — very close to
• Old Norse: mjǫk — very close to
• Pashto: تقريباً (taqríban) — very close to
• Dari: تَقْرِیباً (taqrīban) — very close to
• Dari: قَرِیب (qarīb) — very close to
• Iranian Persian: تَقْریباً (taġriban) — very close to
• Iranian Persian: قَریب (ġarib) — very close to
• Plautdietsch: knaup — very close to
• Plautdietsch: afens — very close to
• Polish: prawie — very close to
• Polish: niemalże — very close to
• Polish: niemal — very close to
• Polish: omal — very close to
• Polish: bez mała — very close to
• Polish: blisko — very close to
• Portuguese: quase — very close to
• Quechua: yaqa — very close to
• Romanian: aproape — very close to
• Romanian: era să — very close to
• Russian: почти́ (počtí) — very close to
• Russian: почти́ что (počtí što) — very close to
• Sanskrit: नोद् (nod) — very close to
• Sardinian: cante — very close to
• Scots: awmaist — very close to
• Scots: amaist — very close to
• Scots: maistly — very close to
• Scots: maistlins — very close to
• Serbo-Croatian: ско̀ро — very close to
• Serbo-Croatian: skòro — very close to
• Sinhalese: බොහෝ දුරට (bohō duraṭa) — very close to
• Slovak: skoro — very close to
• Slovak: takmer — very close to
• Slovene: skôraj — very close to
• Lower Sorbian: skóro — very close to
• Spanish: casi — very close to
• Spanish: por poco — very close to
• Spanish: cuasi — very close to
• Swedish: nästan — very close to
• Swedish: närapå — very close to
• Tajik: тақрибан (taqriban) — very close to
• Tajik: қариб (qarib) — very close to
• Tày: ái — very close to
• Telugu: దాదాపు (dādāpu) — very close to
• Telugu: దరిదాపు (daridāpu) — very close to
• Thai: เกือบ (gʉ̀ʉap) — very close to
• Tibetan: ཕལ་ཆེར (phal cher) — very close to
• Tibetan: ཧ་ལམ (ha lam) — very close to
• Tok Pisin: klosap — very close to
• Turkish: neredeyse — very close to
• Ukrainian: ма́йже (májže) — very close to
• Ukrainian: сливе́ (slyvé) — very close to
• Unami: kayahti — very close to
• Urdu: تَقْرِیباً (taqrīban) — very close to
• Urdu: لَگ بَھگ (lag bhag) — very close to
• Uzbek: deyarli — very close to
• Uzbek: qariyb — very close to
• Uzbek: taqriban — very close to
• Vietnamese: gần — very close to
• Vietnamese: gần như — very close to
• Vietnamese: hầu như — very close to
• Welsh: bron — very close to
• Yiddish: כּמעט (kimat) — very close to
• Armenian: գրեթե (gretʻe) — (mathematics)
• Bulgarian: почти́ (počtí) — (mathematics)
• Finnish: melkein — (mathematics)
• Finnish: lähes — (mathematics)
• Finnish: miltei — (mathematics)
• Finnish: liki — (mathematics)
• German: fast — (mathematics)
• Polish: prawie — (mathematics)
• Polish: niemal — (mathematics)
• Armenian: գրեթե (gretʻe) — (measure theory, probability theory)
• Bulgarian: почти́ (počtí) — (measure theory, probability theory)
• Finnish: melkein — (measure theory, probability theory)
• Finnish: lähes — (measure theory, probability theory)
• Finnish: miltei — (measure theory, probability theory)
• Finnish: liki — (measure theory, probability theory)
• German: fast — (measure theory, probability theory)
• Polish: prawie — (measure theory, probability theory)
• Polish: niemal — (measure theory, probability theory)