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dearest /ˈdɪərɪst /adjective1Most loved or cherished: one of my dearest friends...- ‘They are my dearest friends and I love them,’ she said as her eyelids closed.
- I will always love you, my dearest friend, my only sister.
- In it, the admiral wrote: ‘I can neither eat nor sleep for thinking of you my dearest love.’
2British Most expensive: beer is dearest in Germany...- This country has moved from being the twelfth most expensive place for labour in 1999 to the eighth dearest this year, the submission adds.
- The estimated sale price at Sotheby's was between £6m and £8m but the final figure makes Omai the most expensive painting by Reynolds and the dearest sold at auction in London this year.
- They finished the year with a 9.5 billion dollar surplus and tell us, when petrol is the dearest it has ever been, that next year they are going to tax it a further 12c a litre.
nounUsed as an affectionate form of address: you make me so happy, dearest...- I will go but I will not die, I promise you that, my dearest!
- If you are wondering who I am, my dearest, I will insist on delaying that information for a future time.
- ‘I am one-hundred-percent male, my dearest,’ he said mockingly.
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