Foremost

Definition: Foremost

Foremost

Adjective

1. Ranking above all others; "was first in her class"; "the foremost figure among marine artists"; "the top graduate".

2. Preceding all others in spatial position; "the foremost compartment of the ship".

3. Situated closest to the bow; "the foremost compartment of the ship".

Adverb

1. Prominently forward; "he put his best foot foremost".

2. Before anything else; "first we must consider the garter snake".

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Date "foremost" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Foremost \Fore"most`\, adjective. [from Old English expression formest first, Anglo-Saxon formest, fyrmest, superl. of forma first, which is superl. from fore fore; compare to Gothic frumist, fruma, first. See Fore, adverb, and compare to First, Former, Frame, transitive verb, Prime,]. (references)

Synonyms: Foremost

Beginning

First, foremost, leading; maiden.

Adverb: at the beginning, in the beginning; Noun: first, in the first place, imprimis, first and foremost; in limine; in the bud, in embryo, in its infancy; from the beginning, from its birth; ab initio, ab ovo, ab incunabilis, ab origine.

Exertion

Take pains; do one's best, do one's level best, do one's utmost; give one hundred percent, do the best one can, do all one can, do all in one's power, do as much as in one lies, do what lies in one's power; use one's best endeavor, use one's utmost endeavor; try one's best, try one's utmost; play one's best card; put one's best leg foremost, put one's right leg foremost; have one's whole soul in his work, put all one's strength into, strain every nerve; spare no efforts, spare no pains; go all lengths; go through fire and water; (resolution); move heaven and earth, leave no stone unturned.

Front

Adverb: before; in front, in the van, in advance; ahead, right ahead; forehead, foremost; in the foreground, in the lee of; before one's face, before one's eyes; face to face, vis-a-vis; front a front.

Importance

Paramount, essential, vital, all-absorbing, radical, cardinal, chief, main, prime, primary, principal, leading, capital, foremost, overruling; of vital; importance.

Precession

Adverb: in advance, before, ahead, in the van, in the lead; foremost, headmost; in front; at the head, out in front; way out in front, far ahead.

Repute

Remarkable; (important); notable, notorious; celebrated, renowned, ion every one's mouth, talked of; famous, famed; far-famed; conspicuous, to the front; foremost; in the front rank, in the ascendant.

Superiority

Supreme, greatest, utmost, paramount, preeminent, foremost, crowning; first-rate; (important), (excellent); unrivaled peerless, matchless; none such, second to none, sans pareil; unparagoned, unparalleled, unequalled, unapproached, unsurpassed; superlative, inimitable facile princeps, incomparable, sovereign, without parallel, nulli secundus, ne plus ultra; beyond compare, beyond comparison; culminating; (topmost); transcendent, transcendental;plus royaliste que le Roi, more catholic than the Pope

Velocity

Hurry; (hasten); accelerate, put on; quicken; quicken one's pace, mend one's pace; clap spurs to one's horse; make haste, make rapid strides, make forced marches, make the best of one's way; put one's best leg foremost, stir one's stumps, wing one's way, set off at a score; carry sail, crowd sail; go off like a shot, go like a shot, go ahead, gain ground; outstrip the wind, fly on the wings of the wind.

Violence

Verb: be -violent; Adjective: run high; ferment, effervesce; romp, rampage, go on a rampage; run wild, run amuck, run riot; break the peace; rush, tear; rush headlong, rush foremost; raise a storm, make a riot; rough house; riot, storm; wreak, bear down, ride roughshod, out Herod, Herod; spread like wildfire.

Adverb: violently; Adjective: amain; by storm, by force, by main force; with might and main; tooth and nail, vi et armis, at the point of the sword, at the point of the bayonet; at one fell swoop; with a high hand, through thick and thin; in desperation, with a vengeance; a outrance, a toute outrance; headlong, head foremost.

Crosswords: Foremost

Appearance, my friend, is first and foremost in this savage land that we call high school (2 Little, 2 Late; writing credit: Jim Brooks; Mark Swanson)

A good school is a community where children learn to live first and foremost as children and not as future adults. (references; author: unknown)

Feet Foremost (1968)

Harry Warren: America's Foremost Composer (1933)

Feet Foremost (1983)

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References

• Foremost Corporation of America: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• 7 Strategies for Wealth & Happiness: Power Ideas from America's Foremost Business Philosopher (reference)

• Neil Simon Monologues: Speeches from the Works of America's Foremost Playwright (reference)

• The Canadian Oxford Dictionary: The Foremost Authority on Current Canadian English (reference)

• The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: New Spiritual Classic from One of the Foremost Interpreters of Tibetan Buddhism (reference)

• The Ultimate Breastfeeding Book of Answers : The Most Comprehensive Problem-Solution Guide to Breastfeeding from the Foremost Expert in North America (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Women:First & Foremost Volume 1 (reference)

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Music

• First & Foremost [IMPORT] (reference)

• Ragtime Guitar's Foremost Fingerpicker (reference)

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Nearly every head of iceberg lettuce you'll find in a supermarket owes its parentage to the work of ARS plant breeders. Salinas iceberg lettuce and its progeny are the most widely planted iceberg lettuces in the Salinas Valley of California, the world's foremost lettuce-growing region. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Pencil drawing of Green-winged Teal by Lynn Bogue Hunt, one of America's foremost wildlife artists. His works were seen in numerous magazines and books. (Deceased) Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page Visit the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Home.

U.S. Engineers - Foremost Skilled mechanics, technical specialists. Credit: Library of Congress.

The original mystery man of India, the great Kara the world's foremost mind reader and crystal gazer and his $50,000 production of Oriental splendor "A night in the Orient.". Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S. Engineers - Foremost Skilled mechanics, technical specialists. Credit: Library of Congress.

All our literature and art are for the masses, and foremost for the workers, peasants and soldiers; they are created for the workers, peasants and soldiers and are for their use. Credit: Library of Congress.

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The step was palsied now, that had been foremost in the charge

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Health

Therefore, the provider must approach and counsel first and foremost the mother, as the pivotal caretaker. (references)

Foremost among the cancers caused by tobacco is lung cancer-the number one cancer killer of both men and women. (references)

First and foremost, information on urinary incontinence should be included in the core curricula of undergraduate and graduate professional schools. (references)

Business

The leaders include Unilever, P&G, LG Group, Vietnam Brewery, KAO Corporation, Foremost Dairy Food, Coca-Cola and Pepsi. (references)

In 1998, the market started to stabilize with a 3.8 percent increase that year after two years of exceptional growth of 18 and 13 percent respectively in 1996 and 1997. The reasons for the slowdown beginning in 1998 are that, first and foremost, large investments were made in those two years. (references)

This prediction was confirmed by statements made by the CEO's of the world's leading companies and the world's foremost politicians and scholars who attended the Fortune Global Forum in Shanghai in September 1999. With almost no exceptions, Fortune Global Forum attendees expressed their willingness to recommend additional investment in China. (references)

Civil Liberties

Sri Lanka

The Constitution gives Buddhism a foremost position, but it also provides for the right of members of other faiths to practice their religions freely, and the Government respects this right in practice. (references)

Economic History

Turkey

The country's foremost commercial/economic daily newspaper is Dunya. (references)

Chile

Maintaining a moderate inflation level is a foremost Central Bank objective. (references)

Human Rights

Brazil

The Catholic Church's Pastoral Land Commission (CPT), the country's foremost entity monitoring human rights in rural areas, reported 18 killings of landless activists from January through September. (references)

Political Economy

UNITED KINGDOM

London is one of the foremost international financial centers in the world, and British financial institutions are major intermediaries of credit flows to developing countries. (references)

AUSTRIA

Import License Requirements: The EU, and therefore Austria, requires import licenses for a number of products, first and foremost for agricultural and health products on health grounds. (references)

Trade

Switzerland

Switzerland is one of the world's foremost banking and financial centers. (references)

Austria

The European Union, and therefore Austria, requires import licenses for a number of products, first and foremost for agricultural produce and products. (references)

Worker Rights

China

The amended law gives the ACFTU clearer responsibility than previously to represent workers' interests first and foremost. (references)

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Expressions using "foremost": first and foremost ♦ foremost people ♦ head foremost ♦ stern foremost ♦ To put the best foot foremost. Additional references.

Albanian

përpara (afore, ahead, along, before, ere, erst, erstwhile, fore, forth, forward, frontward, frontwards, in advance, in front, in front of, of old, onward, or, past, preliminary, previous to, prior to), më i shquari (uppermost), kryesor (arch, arterial, basal, capital, Cardinal, central, chief, focal, fundamental, general, governing, grand, great, key, keynote, leading, main, major, pivotal, predominant, premier, primal, primary, prime, principal, topmost, trunk), i parë (aboriginal, early, first, former, front, headmost, initial, maiden, opening, original, premier, primary, primitive, progenitor), drejtues (administrator, conductor, front-bencher, governing, head, leader, leading, managerial, managing, mentor, pilot, supervisor). (various references)

Arabic 

‏في المقام الأول (firstly, mostly, primarily), ‏أولا (first, firstly, in the first instance, originally, primarily, uppermost), ‏أول (chief, fore, former, initial, premier), ‏رئيسي (arch, arterial, broad, cardinal, central, chief, fundamental, head on, key-, leading, main, major, master, masterful, premier, primal, primary, prime, principal, sovereign, staple). (various references)

Bulgarian 

челен (frontal, head, headmost, leading), с най-горен чин, най-ранен (original, primitive, primordial), най-важен (central, essential, leading, main, primal, primary, prime, principal, supreme), първо (first, firstly, imprimis), пръв (first, leading, maiden, major, opening, premier, primordial). (various references)

Chinese 

首要 (Chiefly, Primaries). (various references)

Czech

první (bottom, first, front, leading, premier, prime), nejpřednìjší (headmost, uppermost), napřed (ahead, before, first of all, in front, onward, onwards). (various references)

Finnish

etumainen (first, the forward), ensimmäinen (first, principal). (various references)

French

tout d'abord, principal, le plus en avant, en tout premier lieu. (various references)

German

vorderst, erst (as recently as, at first, exclusively, first, first of all, firstly, just, not until, only). (various references)

Greek 

κύριος (chief, gent, gentleman, main, master, staple), πρώτιστοσ (chief), πρώτοσ (first, primal, primary, prime), πρώτος (first, primary). (various references)

Hebrew 

חשוב ביותר, הקדמי (introductory). (various references)

Hungarian

legkiválóbb (ranking), legfõbb (Cardinal, chief, paramount, sovereign, supreme, topmost, upmost), legelsõ (first, initial, primordial, principal), legelső (paramount, primordial, principal, top, very first), legelülsõ, elsõnek, elsõként (first), elsőnek (first), elsőként (first). (various references)

Indonesian

terdepan (front, in the lead). (various references)

Italian

principale (boss, capital, chief, employer, grand, head, leading, main, major, manager, master, overriding, primal, primary, prime, principal, staple, uppermost), primo (at first, best, chief, early, first, former, leading, maiden, main, next, premier, primary, prime, principal, top), in prima fila, in avanti (ahead, forward, on, onward), il più avanzato, eminente (distinguished, eminent, leading), anzitutto (above all). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

傑出 (excel). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くっし (leading, one of the best, outstanding, preeminent), さいぜん (distinctive, the very best), いちりゅう (first class, school, top grade, top-notch, unique), けっしゅつ (excel), だいいち (first). (various references)

Korean 

최초 (Primal). (various references)

Manx

red toshee. (various references)

Norwegian

fremst, forrest (fore, forward). (various references)

Pig Latin

oremostfay.(various references)

Portuguese

principal (boss, broad, cardinal, central, chief, essential, firm in one's principles, first, flyaway, head, high, highlight, keynote, king, leading, main, major, parent, pivotal, preparative, primal, principal, slip-on, substantial), primeiro (early, first, fore, forehand, former, initial, leading, origin, preparative, primal, primary, prime), primeiramente (first, first of all, firstly, formerly, imprimis, initially, primarily), melhor (best, better, bettor, superior), em primeiro lugar (first of all, firstly, imprimis, primarily, uppermost), dianteiro (fore, forward, front, headmost, up-to-date), anteriormente (above, ago, anteriorly, back, back of, before, behind, first, fore, formerly, previously, theretofore), à frente (ahead, forward). (various references)

Romanian

primordial (absolute, essential, essentially, initial, primary, primordial, primordially), prim (early, first, front, fundamental, initial, maiden, one, original, premier, primal, prime), de primul rang (first rate, front-rank), cel mai remarcabil, cel mai înaintat (headmost, outermost), cel dintâi (former), întâi de toate, în primul loc. (various references)

Russian 

самый главный (uppermost), выдающийся (brilliant, distinguished, drop-dead, egregious, eminent, high-profile, man of distinction, man of mark, man of note, notable, noted, outstanding, pre-eminencent, pre-eminent, prognathous, prominent, protruding, remarkable, salient), прежде всего (first and foremost, first of all, for one thing, in the first instance), первый (first, first-ever, maiden, premier), первейший, передовой (advanced, advancer, far out, forward, front-rank, headmost, industry-leading, innovative, leading). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prvo (first, first: at first, firstly, imprimis, primely), najistaknutiji. (various references)

Spanish

principal (arch, capital, Cardinal, chief, chief officer, grand, great, head, high-end, immediate, large, lead, leading, main, major, most important, predominant, preferred, primal, prime, principal, staple, star, top, trunk, uppermost), primero (Aa, capital, chief, early, first, first of all, firstly, former, front, head, immediate, initial, leader, leading, low, lower, maiden, opening, original, outermost, overriding, premier, primary, prime, top), primeramente (at first, first, first of all, firstly), delantero (fore, forward, front, head, leading). (various references)

Swedish

främst (cardinal, especially, first, leading, overriding, premier, principally, uppermost), förnämst (champion, chief, first, leading, paramount, posh). (various references)

Turkish

ilk önce (at the outset, first of all), en önemli (in chief, most important, number one, of primary importance, prime), başta (ahead, at the outset, first, for starters, in the first instance), baş (arch, arch-, beginning, beginnings, bow, capital, central, chief, coconut, costard, especial, first, general, governing, grand, head, heading, in chief, initial, knob, leader, master, nob, noddle, off, outset, potato, premier, primal, primary, prime, principal, sconce, top), önde gelen (arch-, capital, central, first, prominent). (various references)

Ukrainian

уперед (ahead, along, forth, forwards, go ahead, on, onward, onwards, straight ahead), основний (basal, base, basic, basilar, capital, central, chief, first, fundamental, key, main, master, organic, primary, primitive, principal, quintessence, radical, staple, substantial, ultimate, underlying), насамперед (above all things, erst, first of all, to begin with, uppermost), передовий (advanced, headmost, progressive). (various references)

Vietnamese 

trước tiên (first, headmost, imprimis), trước nhất đứng đầu, trước nhất (chiefly), trước hết (imprimis, primarily), trên hết (headmost), tốt nhất (optimal), lỗi lạc nhất, cao nhất (culminant, topmost), đầu tiên (primordial). (various references)

Welsh

blaen (anterior, apex, edge, end, first, fore, front, point, precedence, priority, tip, top, van). (various references)

potissimum, primoribus, primoris, princeps, princepsque, principe, principem, principes, principi, principia, principibus, principis, principium, principum. (various references)

apanôtemem, fraêshtem, paoiri, paurva. (various references)

fyrmest. (various references)

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Derivations

Words ending with "foremost": headforemost, sternforemost. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Foremost" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Faremo, foremos, formest, formost, fourmost, frokost. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: foetors, footers, mooters.

-2 letters: fetors, foetor, footer, forest, formes, fortes, foster, metros, mooter, morose, motors, romeos, softer, torose.

-3 letters: fetor, foots, fores, forme, forms, forte, forts, frets, froes, frost, metro, moors, moose, moots, mores, morse, morts, moste, motes, motor, ofter, omers, romeo, roofs, rooms, roose, roost, roots, roset, rotes, rotos, smote, store, storm.

+2 letters: comforters, postformed.

+3 letters: comfortless, foremothers, outperforms, thermoforms.

+4 letters: conformities, deformations, discomforted, electroforms, fluorometers, footlamberts, headforemost, mothproofers, reformations, tomfooleries.

+5 letters: fluorometries, midafternoons, olfactometers, preformations, reformatories, sternforemost.