TOPMOST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does topmost mean? 

• TOPMOST (adjective)
  The adjective TOPMOST has 1 sense:

1. at or nearest to the top

  Familiarity information: TOPMOST used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOPMOST (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

At or nearest to the top

Synonyms:

topmost; upmost; uppermost

Context example:

on the topmost step

Similar:

top (situated at the top or highest position)

 Context examples 

Abnormal cells are found in the squamous cell or basal cell layer of the epidermis (topmost layer of the skin).

(Nonmelanoma carcinoma in situ, NCI Dictionary)

And when she read aloud to him her favorite passages, he ascended to the topmost heaven of delight.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Abnormal cells are found in the epidermis (topmost layer of the skin).

(Nonmelanoma skin carcinoma in situ on the eyelid, NCI Dictionary)

It soared upward with a swift rush, till it reached its topmost note, where it persisted, palpitant and tense, and then slowly died away.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It was low in the heavens, and I calculated that in less than an hour it would lie just above the topmost branches of the old oak.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I looked at him, the man who had been hurled down from the topmost pitch of life to be buried alive and be worse than dead.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He had not gone far before he met an old miser: close by them stood a tree, and on the topmost twig sat a thrush singing away most joyfully.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The portion of a piston above the topmost seal ring.

(Piston Head Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

I was determined, however, not to look about me before I had reached the very highest point, so I scrambled on until I had got so far that the topmost branch was bending beneath my weight.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A mist dispersed; I saw my life to be forfeit; and fled from the scene of these excesses, at once glorying and trembling, my lust of evil gratified and stimulated, my love of life screwed to the topmost peg.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)