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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

mais vendido

Pronunciation / Transliteration: mah-eez ven-dee-doo

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Bestselling/ˈbestˌsel.ɪŋ/
adjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #3400 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Este é o livro mais vendido da década."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As adjective
  1. 1

    Selling in very large numbers.

    "The author celebrated the release of her bestselling novel."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

A compound word formed from the superlative adverb 'best' (from Old English 'betst') and the present participle of the verb 'sell' (from Old English 'sellan'). It emerged in the late 19th century as commercial publishing expanded, initially used to describe books that sold in exceptionally high quantities compared to competitors.

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