best part of

determiner

most of, majority of

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determiner
  1. most of, majority of
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    The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.

    1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

    Synonyms: better part of

Synonyms & antonyms

determinermost of, majority of

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best part of. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/best%20part%20of

MLA

“best part of.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/best%20part%20of. Accessed November 5, 2026.

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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “best part of,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/best%20part%20of.

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