FOREMOST • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Foremost

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/fˈɔrmˌoʊst/ Listen

Foremost

adjective

Ranking above all others. Synonyms: first, world-class. "The foremost figure among marine artists" , "The top graduate"

Preceding all others in spatial position. Synonym: frontmost.

Situated closest to the bow.

adverb

Prominently forward. Synonym: first.

Before anything else. Synonyms: first, first of all, first off, firstly.

See more definitions of Foremost...

See images of 'Foremost'

Etymology of 'Foremost'

Share |

"Foremost" Quotes from Famous Books

... German troops with a spirit of martial fervor (not easily aroused to fever pitch after the bloody losses before Verdun) Orders of the Day were issued to the battalions counseling them to hold fast against the hated English, who stood foremost in the way of peace (that was the gist of a manifesto by Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, which I found in a dugout at Montauban), and promising them a speedy ending ...

— Now It Can Be Told • Philip Gibbs

... knew William Cory will think it an exaggeration to say that his mind was probably one of the most vigorous and commanding minds of the century. He had a mental equipment of the foremost order, great intellectual curiosity, immense vigour and many-sidedness, combined with a firm grasp of a subject, perfect clearness of thought, and absolute lucidity ...

— Ionica • William Cory (AKA William Johnson)

... waifs and strays, of uncertain origin, ashamed of their birth, and ignorant even whether they had been duly begotten in lawful wedlock; to-day, they were the legal inheritors of an honoured name and a great estate, the first and foremost among the landed gentry of a ...

— What's Bred In the Bone • Grant Allen

... with Pictet, that Darwin's theory will very well serve for all that concerns the present epoch of the world's history—an epoch in which this renowned paleontologist includes the diluvial or quaternary period—then Darwin's first and foremost need in his onward course is a practicable road from this into and through the tertiary period, the intervening region between the comparatively near and the far remote past. Here Lyell's doctrine paves the way, by showing that in the ...

— Darwiniana - Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism • Asa Gray

... southward in the boats were the Vermont troops with their general and Rolf in the foremost. Every sign of the fight they had watched as men whose country's fate ...

— Rolf In The Woods • Ernest Thompson Seton

More quotes...