Ok, I see that doing so is a standard usage: > (pronounced stressing “the”) used to indicate that someone or something is the best known or most important of t

Ok, I see that doing so is a standard usage: > (pronounced stressing “the”) used to indicate that someone or something is the best known or most important of that name or type. "he was the hot young piano prospect in jazz" I would tend to agree that "best known" is relatively objective (in theory -- but who really believes in an objective definition of what 'everyone' knows?); however, "most important" clearly tends towards subjectivity, as it implies value judgments into what is important and why.