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at least

at least prepositional phrase: at a minimum or lower limit.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (focus) At a minimum or lower limit.
    • I couldn't count them all, but I think there must have been at least 500 people in attendance.
    • So Martha hid herself, and in came little Bob [Cratchit], the father, with at least three feet of comforter exclusive of the fringe, hanging down before him; and his thread-bare clothes darned up and brushed, to look seasonable; and Tiny Tim upon his shoulder.1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Three. The Second of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. […], London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, pages 89–90
  2. In any event; anyway.
    • You could even be discovered, become a movie star, or at least see one.1997 May 14, Brian Helgeland, Curtis Hanson, L.A. Confidential, spoken by Sid Hudgens (Danny DeVito), Regency Enterprises; distributed by Warner Bros.

at least meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

at least in Hindi

at a lower limit
कम से कम kam se kam

at least in Tamil

குறைந்த பட்சம்

at least in Marathi

at a lower limit
कमीत कमी kamīt kamī, निदान nidān

at least in Urdu

at a lower limit
کم سے کم kam se kam
More languagesFewer languages
at least in Bengali
অন্যূন onnuno
at least in Malayalam
എങ്കിലും eṅkiluṁ, എന്തായാലും entāyāluṁ, എന്നാലും ennāluṁ
at least in Kannada
ಕನಿಷ್ಠ ಪಕ್ಷ, ಅಷ್ಟಾದರೂ, ಏನೇ ಆದರೂ, ಎಷ್ಟು ಕೊಂಚವೆಂದರೂ
at least in Punjabi
ਅੰਤ anta
at least in Sanskrit
घ gha
at least in Arabic
عَلَى اَلْأَقَلّ ʕalā l-ʔaqall, عَلَى الأَقَلِّ ʕalā l-ʔaqalli
at least in Indonesian
minimal, setidaknya
at least in Persian
اقلًا aqalan, حداقل hadd-e aqall, دستکم dast-e kam
at least in Thai
อย่างน้อย yàang nɔ́ɔi
at least in Vietnamese
ít nhất, tối thiểu

Synonyms of at least

Antonyms

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Forms of at least

alternative format the least
alternative format the very least
alternative formatleast

Origin of at least

From Middle English at leste, from Old English æt lǣstan.

Questions about at least

What does at least mean?
At least means at a minimum or lower limit.
What is at least in Hindi?
At least in Hindi is कम से कम (kam se kam). See At least meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is at least?
At least is a prepositional phrase.

Words near at least in the dictionary

  1. at it
  2. at knifepoint
  3. at large
  4. at last
  5. at latter Lammas
  6. at least
  7. at leisure
  8. at length
  9. at liberty
  10. at loggerheads
  11. at long last

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: at least (page history and authors); at least (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); অন্যূন (Bengali) (page history and authors); at least (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਅੰਤ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); घ (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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