palmiest
palmiest is the superlative form of palmy.
Meaning of palmy
Adjective
palmy (comparative palmier, superlative palmiest)
- Of, related to, or abounding in palm trees.
- From Greenland’s icy mountains,
From India’s coral strand,
Where Afric’s sunny fountains
Roll down their golden sand;
From many an ancient river,
From many a palmy plain,
They call us to deliver
Their land from error’s chain.1819, Reginald Heber, The Missionary Hymn
- From Greenland’s icy mountains,
- Prosperous, flourishing, booming or thriving.
- Elliston was, in his day, the Napoleon of Drury Lane; but, like the conqueror at Austerlitz, he suffered his declensions, and the Surrey became to him a Saint Helena. However, once an eagle always an eagle; and Robert William was no less aquiline in the day of adversity than in his palmy time of...1832, The London Spy, volume 2, page 292
- Made out of palm leaves or palm sap.
Questions about palmiest
- What is palmiest the superlative form of?
- Palmiest is the superlative form of palmy.
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