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 Translation for 'the greatest' from English to Spanish
el mayor pecado {m} [locución]the greatest sin [idiom]
Partial Matches
la {f}the
5
el {m}the
9
lit.F
El hablador [Mario Vargas Llosa]
The Storyteller
lo mismo {pron}the same
relig.
la Asunción {f} de (la Virgen) María
the Assumption
geogr.
los trópicos {m.pl}
the tropics
poderosos {m.pl}the mighty
náut.
la proa {f}
the fore
lit.TVF
Los Pitufos
The Smurfs
al contrarioto the contrary
el peor {adj}the worst
el mejor {adj}the best
geogr.
Gambia {f}
The Gambia
geogr.
los Alpes {m.pl}
the Alps
geogr.
el Vaticano {m}
the Vatican
geogr.
el Támesis {m}
the Thames
geogr.
los Pirineos {m.pl}
the Pyrenees
geogr.
el Pacífico {m}
the Pacific
geogr.
el Himalaya {m}
the Himalayas
geogr.
La Haya {f}
The Hague
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Usage Examples English
  • Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential directors in cinema history, his films explore spiritual and metaphysical themes, and are noted for their slow pacing and long takes, dreamlike visual imagery, and preoccupation with nature and memory.
  • James Joyce's favoured philosopher was Aristotle, whom he considered to be "the greatest thinker of all times".
  • was a hero of the Trojan War, the greatest of all the Greek warriors, and the central character of Homer's "Iliad".
  • This alienated a number of his colleagues and pupils, including Damascius, who nonetheless called him "the greatest commentator who ever lived" in his own "Life of Isidore of Alexandria".
  • The Twelver Shia view Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr as one of the greatest companions of Ali.

  • Due to the troubled times the empire was enduring, he had by far the greatest number of rebellions against him of all the Byzantine emperors.
  • The species "Amaranthus palmeri" (Palmer amaranth) causes the greatest reduction in soybean yields and has the potential to reduce yields by 17-68% in field experiments.
  • The Austrian School is a heterodox Fritz Machlup quoted Hayek's statement that "the greatest success of a school is that it stops existing because its fundamental teachings have become parts of the general body of commonly accepted thought".
  • Artist Maurizio Cattelan describes that it is difficult to separate daily encounters from the art of Andy Warhol: "That's probably the greatest thing about Warhol: the way he penetrated and summarized our world, to the point that distinguishing between him and our everyday life is basically impossible, and in any case useless."
  • El Hadj M'Hamed El Anka is considered the greatest master of the art in modern times.

  • Nobel was later inspired to donate his fortune to the Nobel Prize institution, which would annually recognize those who "conferred the greatest benefit to humankind".
  • The Armenian king dynasty Achaemenids made one of the greatest highways of the Ancient world.
  • Greek mathematicians later used algorithms in 240 BC in the sieve of Eratosthenes for finding prime numbers, and the Euclidean algorithm for finding the greatest common divisor of two numbers.
  • The City of Calgary is also famous for its Stampede, dubbed "The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth".
  • When Erwin Schrödinger discovered Schopenhauer ("the greatest savant of the West") he considered switching his study of physics to philosophy.

  • The rivalry has been called the greatest of the generation of players competing in the 1990s, [...] as Sampras and Agassi were the most successful players of that decade.
  • The Spanish did not colonise Antigua until after a combination of European and African diseases, malnutrition, and slavery eventually extirpated most of the native population; smallpox was probably the greatest killer.
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