Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb At least.
from The Century Dictionary.
- At least: an obsolete or colloquial form of
leastwise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb colloq. At least; at all events.
- adverb [Obs.] at least.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb
at least
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb if nothing else (`leastwise' is informal and `leastways' is colloquial)
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Examples
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'Nothing at all, Edie dear; leastways, that is, nothing to speak of,' said her mother, coming up from the shop hot and flurried from her desperate encounter with the redoubtable Miss Luttrell.
Philistia Grant Allen 1873
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"It ain't the SMILING JANE," said one of the seamen; "leastways," he added cautiously, "it wasn't when I came aboard."
Many Cargoes 1903
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In the meantime, you just rest up and think about what things you want to pack, because we'll just about have to set up housekeeping on your stuff -- leastways, the front part of the house.
Chapter XXIII 2010
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He didn't tell it, Miss -- leastways, not until after them three others boarded us.
CHAPTER XXXVI 2010
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He was gentler than a woman — leastways, than the "girls" who used to live in some big buildin's across the way there where you see the warehouse now.
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Which is a bad thing, cause I always liked Lou and nobody likes a thief, leastways one that's low enough to steal from another carny.
Think being nobody's easy? Try it with the lights out. James Lloyd Davis 2011
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But there was no storm, leastways not any rain storm to speak of, and the hunt sucked.
Pheasant Hunt 2010
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She is the experienced one, leastways that is what she is running on.
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Gibson got some money, but like Brando in The Waterfront, he coulda been a contender, and wasn't, leastways not for his first novel.
Archive 2010-02-01 Steve Perry 2010
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If you can't get soup you can leastways get applesauce.
Pheasant Hunt 2010
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