atleastとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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From 中期英語 at leste, from 古期英語 æt lǣstan.

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at least

1. (focus) At a minimum or lower limit.

   I couldn't count them all, but I think there must have been at least 500 people in attendance.

   • 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Three. The Second of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, pages 89–90:

     So Martha hid herself, and in came little Bob [Cratchit], the father, with at least three feet of comforter exclusive of the fringe, hanging down before him; and his thread-bare clothes darned up and brushed, to look seasonable; and Tiny Tim upon his shoulder.

2. In any event; anyway.
   • 1997 May 14, Brian Helgeland, Curtis Hanson, L.A. Confidential, spoken by Sid Hudgens (Danny DeVito), Regency Enterprises; distributed by Warner Bros.:

     You could even be discovered, become a movie star, or at least see one.

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