BEST OF ALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does best of all mean? 

• BEST OF ALL (adverb)
  The adverb BEST OF ALL has 1 sense:

1. especially fortunate

  Familiarity information: BEST OF ALL used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEST OF ALL (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Especially fortunate

Context example:

best of all, we don't have any homework!

 Context examples 

It means you will be working on sophisticated projects that you will enjoy, and best of all, you will likely be paid well, too.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

And, best of all, I felt myself the protector of my loved one.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He replied, that a good case of a disputed will, where there was a neat little estate of thirty or forty thousand pounds, was, perhaps, the best of all.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Best of all, perhaps, he loved to lie near the fire, hind legs crouched under him, fore legs stretched out in front, head raised, and eyes blinking dreamily at the flames.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Her sisters braided up her pretty hair, and the only ornaments she wore were the lilies of the valley, which 'her John' liked best of all the flowers that grew.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“Oh! but those two lines are”—“The best of all. Granted;—for private enjoyment; and for private enjoyment keep them.”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

So he said: “I did the best of all, and it would have gone badly without me.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I have thought and thought, and it seems to me that the simplest way is the best of all.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third storey, backwards and forwards, safe in the silence and solitude of the spot, and allow my mind's eye to dwell on whatever bright visions rose before it—and, certainly, they were many and glowing; to let my heart be heaved by the exultant movement, which, while it swelled it in trouble, expanded it with life; and, best of all, to open my inward ear to a tale that was never ended—a tale my imagination created, and narrated continuously; quickened with all of incident, life, fire, feeling, that I desired and had not in my actual existence.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He and I had a great deal of talk about it; and the best of all is, that he is gone back again to Harley Street, that he may be within call when Mrs. Ferrars is told of it, for she was sent for as soon as ever my cousins left the house, for your sister was sure SHE would be in hysterics too; and so she may, for what I care.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)