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best wishes

[ best wish-iz ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

plural noun

(used to express hope for another person’s happiness, success, health, etc., usually in writing):
Best wishes on your 60th birthday.
Happy holidays, and best wishes for the new year.
an expression of friendly regard:
Give your father my best wishes next time you see him.

First recorded in 1590–1600

Prince Harry sends you and everyone at the magazine his best wishes and thanks for thinking of him in this way.

David Cameron has tweeted his best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Gandhi called Thatcher almost immediately to send her best wishes and counsel resolve.

Best wishes and prayers to our brothers and sisters of central Russia.

At least one official did not forget to express his best wishes.

Hence, we leave him at this point, joining heartily in the best wishes and the compliments bestowed upon him by his friends.

It would be easy to supply his place; and his successors should have his best wishes.

Deyverdun, from whom I heard the other day, desires his Compliments and best wishes to you.

However, my thoughts will be with you, and you have my best wishes for a really festive day.

He has my best wishes to manure the fields of France with an invading army.

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