personal best in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for personal best in the English»French Dictionary

I.personal [Brit ˈpəːs(ə)n(ə)l, Am ˈpərs(ə)n(ə)l] N Am

II.personal [Brit ˈpəːs(ə)n(ə)l, Am ˈpərs(ə)n(ə)l] ADJ

personnel/-elle

I.best [Brit bɛst, Am bɛst] N

II.best [Brit bɛst, Am bɛst] ADJ superlative of good

1. best (most excellent or pleasing):

III.best [Brit bɛst, Am bɛst] ADV

best superlative of well

IV.best [Brit bɛst, Am bɛst] VB trans (defeat, outdo)

See also well2, well1, Sunday best, good

I.well2 [Brit wɛl, Am wɛl] N

well → well up

I.well1 <comp better; superl best> [Brit wɛl, Am wɛl] ADJ

2. well (in satisfactory state, condition):

II.well1 <comp better; superl best> [Brit wɛl, Am wɛl] ADV

1. well (satisfactorily):

2. well (used with modal verbs):

it may well be that + subj

3. well (intensifier):

III.well1 [Brit wɛl, Am wɛl] INTERJ

I.good [Brit ɡʊd, Am ɡʊd] N

2. good (benefit):

III.good <comp better, superl best> [Brit ɡʊd, Am ɡʊd] ADJ

15. good (competent):

VI.good [Brit ɡʊd, Am ɡʊd] INTERJ

VII.good [Brit ɡʊd, Am ɡʊd]

personal best in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for personal best in the English»French Dictionary

I.best [best] ADJ superl of good

1. best (the finest):

See also well2, well1, good

I.well1 <better, best> [wel] ADJ

II.well1 <better, best> [wel] ADV

III.well1 [wel] INTERJ (exclamation)

I.good <better, best> [gʊd] ADJ

American English

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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She is one of four athletes in the field to throw over 20m this year with a personal best of 20.19m last month.
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She did not improve on her personal best in 2005 or 2006, and only competed on the national level.
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His personal best in decathlon was 7608 points achieved in 1997.
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He had personal best leaps of 1.93 meters in the high jump and 7.04 meters in the long jump.
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He loves the feeling of self-satisfaction of working hard and achieving a personal best time.
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His personal best of 20.54 seconds in the 200 metres makes him the joint national record holder in the event.
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His personal best in the long jump was a Ghanaian record between 1995 and 2003.
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In his career he recorded a sub-10 second personal best in the 100 meters and a sub-20 second best in the 200 meters.
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His personal best of is the Oceanian record.
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On the same day in 2010, he upped his personal best by tightrope walking over in a single performance.
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