| rdfs:comment | - Least (comparative less) 1.
* ;The smallest amount of [something uncountable]. He earns the least money in his family. Of all the sisters, she has the least patience. I can only afford to pay the least of the bills. 2.
* 1857, Edmund March Blunt, The American Coast Pilot: Containing Directions for the Principal Harbors, E. & G.W. Blunt, page 135: The least water we could find there was 4 fathoms, which bears from the point S.E., and is distant 1½ mile. 3.
* 2004, Jim Baggott, Beyond Measure: Modern Physics, Philosophy, and the Meaning of Quantum Theory, Oxford University Press, page 48: Light does not need to know in advance which is the path of least time because it takes all paths from its source to its destination.
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| abstract | - Least (comparative less) 1.
* ;The smallest amount of [something uncountable]. He earns the least money in his family. Of all the sisters, she has the least patience. I can only afford to pay the least of the bills. 2.
* 1857, Edmund March Blunt, The American Coast Pilot: Containing Directions for the Principal Harbors, E. & G.W. Blunt, page 135: The least water we could find there was 4 fathoms, which bears from the point S.E., and is distant 1½ mile. 3.
* 2004, Jim Baggott, Beyond Measure: Modern Physics, Philosophy, and the Meaning of Quantum Theory, Oxford University Press, page 48: Light does not need to know in advance which is the path of least time because it takes all paths from its source to its destination.
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