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comparative more select, superlative most select
Privileged, specially selected. quotations examples
A few select spirits had separated from the crowd, and formed a fit audience round a far greater teacher.
1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 20, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […]
Of high quality; top-notch. examples
third-person singular simple present selects, present participle selecting, simple past and past participle selected
To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options. examples
(databases) To obtain a set of data from a database using a query. examples