Foremost

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Foremost \Fore"most`\, a. [OE. formest first, AS. formest,
     fyrmest, superl. of forma first, which is a superl. fr. fore
     fore; cf. Goth. frumist, fruma, first. See {Fore}, adv., and
     cf. {First}, {Former}, {Frame}, v. t., {Prime}, a.]
     First in time or place; most advanced; chief in rank or
     dignity; as, the foremost troops of an army.


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           THat struck the foremost man of all this world. --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  foremost
       adj 1: ranking above all others; "was first in her class"; "the
              foremost figure among marine artists"; "the top
              graduate" [syn: {first}, {world-class}]
       2: situated closest to the bow; "the foremost compartment of
          the ship"
       3: preceding all others in spatial position; "the foremost
          compartment of the ship" [syn: {frontmost}]
       adv 1: prominently forward; "he put his best foot foremost" [syn: {first}]
       2: before anything else; "first we must consider the garter
          snake" [syn: {first}, {firstly}, {first of all}, {first
          off}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  90 Moby Thesaurus words for "foremost":
     ahead, all-absorbing, antecedent, anterior, arch, banner, before,
     best, capital, cardinal, central, champion, chief, controlling,
     crowning, dominant, exordial, first, firstly, focal, fore,
     foregoing, forehand, forward, front, frontal, great, head, heading,
     headmost, hegemonic, highest, in advance, in front,
     in the forefront, in the foreground, in the front, in the lead,
     inaugural, initial, initiatory, leading, magisterial, maiden, main,
     master, notable, noted, noteworthy, overriding, overruling,
     paramount, precedent, preceding, precessional, precursory,
     predominant, preeminent, prefatory, preliminary, preludial,
     prelusive, premier, preparatory, preponderant, prevailing,
     prevenient, primal, primarily, primary, prime, principal, prior,
     proemial, prominent, propaedeutic, ranking, ruling, sovereign,
     star, stellar, supereminent, superior, supreme, to the fore,
     to the front, topflight, topmost, up ahead, uppermost