foremost

How to use foremost in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for foremost.

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The goal of new code should first and foremost be to be maintainable.

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Quick take

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

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of foremost gathered in one view.

adjective

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

adjective

preceding all others in spatial position; "the foremost compartment of the ship"

adjective

situated closest to the bow; "the foremost compartment of the ship"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for foremost.

adjective

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

adjective

preceding all others in spatial position; "the foremost compartment of the ship"

adjective

situated closest to the bow; "the foremost compartment of the ship"

adverb

prominently forward; "he put his best foot foremost"

adverb

before anything else; "first we must consider the garter snake"

Example sentences

The goal of new code should first and foremost be to be maintainable.

Bitcoin is, and has always been, a medium of exchange first and foremost.

There are all sorts of reasons, but first and foremost is the lack of transparency in all things legal.

But first and foremost is the utter lack of context: I'd argue that Lachy's peers at his high school would be better off comparing themselves to him.

Feinstein is one of the worst people in the Senate on civil liberties issues, and one of the foremost advocates of the national security state.

First and foremost is that if the drug really works, it would be unethical to leave people on a placebo for long periods, because it is clear they have an inferior outcome.

.Education, like religion, politics, and almost everything else in America, is first and foremost a business.

Bruce Scheier, who was quoted in the Guardian piece about the same story, is America's foremost popularizer of the notion of NSA as crypto's global passive adversary.

I know phonologistspeople who are trained in the study of human speech categorieswho have an extremely difficult time discerning between [k] and [k].Peter Ladefoged, one of the worlds foremost phoneticians, has a fantastic website to accompany his phonetics textbook and it has recordings of all the sounds known to be produced in human languages.