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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
foremost
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
authority
▪ No, says psychologist Lenore Walker, one of the foremost authorities in wife abuse research.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
first and foremost
First and foremost, they are looking for ways to save money.
▪ Mayor Agnos is a conservative Christian, but he considers himself first and foremost an American.
▪ What children need first and foremost from their parents is a sense of security.
▪ And Mr Hemsley is first and foremost a producer-not a commodity trader.
▪ Friends say that this was the demand she put first and foremost on the list of what she wanted to achieve.
▪ However my worry is not first and foremost a medical one but a spiritual one.
▪ I really think that first and foremost this one's down to the board.
▪ It has been established that such items as these were employed first and foremost as musical instalments.
▪ It is a film first and foremost about loss.
▪ My other travelling companion, John Lawrence, would describe himself first and foremost as a writer.
▪ This meant, first and foremost, following Bacon in the making of natural histories.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Economic concerns are foremost on many voters' minds.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ First and foremost in importance to the structure were the bishops.
▪ The displays cover the growth and development of one of Britain's foremost medieval strongholds under its succession of powerful castellans.
▪ The National Childbirth Trust, formed in 1956, is Britain's foremost charity concerned with education for parenthood.
▪ Unlike these cities, Dublin is thought of first and foremost for its literary heritage, rather than for its art.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foremost

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.

THat struck the foremost man of all this world.
--Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
foremost

Middle English formest, from Old English fyrmest, formest "earliest, first, most prominent," from Proto-Germanic *furmista-/*frumista- (related to Old English fruma "beginning"), from PIE *pre-mo-, suffixed (superlative) form of root *per- (1) "forward, through; before; first" (see per) + additional superlative suffix -est. For the -m-, see -most, and compare similarly formed Old Frisian formest, Gothic frumists. Altered on the assumption that it is a compound of fore and most. The same compound without the superlative -m- is first. Also in Old English as an adverb, "first of all, at first, in the first place."

Wiktionary
foremost

a. 1 first, either in time or in space 2 of a higher rank or position; paramount 3 (context nautical English) closest to the bow adv. 1 in front 2 prominently forward

WordNet
foremost
  1. adj. 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]

  4. adv. prominently forward; "he put his best foot foremost" [syn: first]

  5. before anything else; "first we must consider the garter snake" [syn: first, firstly, first of all, first off]

Wikipedia
Foremost (software)

Foremost is a forensic data recovery program for Linux used to recover files using their headers, footers, and data structures through a process known as file carving. Although written for law enforcement use, it is freely available and can be used as a general data recovery tool.

Foremost

Foremost means first. Foremost may also refer to:

  • Bow (ship), the front of a ship
  • Foremost 105, originally named Empire Greta, a tugboat in the service of the British Government from 1945 to 1947
  • Foremost 106, originally named Empire Martha, a tugboat in the service of the British Government from 1945 to 1947
  • Foremost Airport, an airport outside of Foremost, Alberta
  • Foremost, Alberta, a village in Canada
  • Foremost Formation, a geological formation in Alberta
  • Foremost Insurance, a mobile home and recreational vehicle insurance company, part of Farmers Insurance Group
  • Foremost-McKesson, a name previously used by the McKesson Corporation
  • Foremost (software), a forensic data recovery program

Usage examples of "foremost".

When pressed for room, the Aleut has been known to crawl head foremost, body whole, right under the manhole and lie there prone between the feet of the paddlers with nothing between him and the abysmal depths of a hissing sea but the parchment keel of the bidarka, thin as paper.

But there were other, more elegant, scenarios that only a handful of Company officers, Angleton foremost among them, could fathom.

Foremost among them was Bogatyr Askold, first officer and commander of his bodyguard, who came striding down the aisle toward him.

But most of the leaders in the Return cults are businesspeople, first and foremost.

Foremost of all, emblazoned at the head of every column, loudest shouted by every triumphant disputant, held up as paramount to all other considerations, stretched like an impenetrable shield to protect the weakest advocate of the great cause against the weapons of the adversary, was that omnipotent monosyllable which has been the patrimony of cheats and the currency of dupes from time immemorial,--Facts!

Seng was one of the Peoples Republic of Chinas foremost political facilitators.

Luigi was a spy, or a counterspy, or an operative, or an agent of some strain, or simply a handler or a contact, or maybe a stringer, but he was first and foremost an Italian.

First and foremost, he was a lyric poet, but he composed epics and dramas as well.

A man with a helmet crested entirely with snow-white feathers shoved her forward into the hands of his foremost soldiers, trying to move her toward a far archway that gave into a larger passage: their escape route.

Sergeant Gedd, foremost of the standard-bearers riding with him today, and was about to pursue his own business.

One of those hooks caught under the edge of the helmetlike head covering of the foremost, and the force of the swing whirled the native off his feet, smashing him into his closest fellow.

State House as one of the foremost benefactors of the great educational institutions of the Commonwealth, and as an example of what a generous ambition can accomplish for the humblest child in the Republic.

Ogden Tweto, the foremost expert on the Laramide orogeny, believes the New Rockies began to emerge 72,000,000 years ago, with the process terminating about 43,000,000 years ago.

The two former, as president and vice-president respectively, were of course in the foremost rank, but their young and ardent lieutenant, Muntz, was as powerful and popular as they.

Washington, in fact, was a masculine town despite being the foremost equal opportunity employer, the spiritual home of politically correct and nonsexist language and laws.