Definition of Foremost

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Definition of Foremost
	Foremost First in time or place; most advanced; chief in rank or dignity; as, the foremost troops of an army. Related Definitions: Advanced, An, Army, As, Chief, Dignity, First, Foremost, In, Most, Of, Or, Place, Rank, The, Time

Foremost Quotations

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
Lord Byron

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
Marquis de Sade

What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
Rahm Emanuel

Yeah, it is, because it's a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That's what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.
Eric Clapton

First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.
Kenny Chesney

You know not having my real dad around and having a step dad made me want to be a great dad. So now I have been one for 9 years. And now 3 daughters. So, that is what I am - a dad, first and foremost, before anything else. It's just something that comes natural now.
Tim McGraw

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.
Marilyn Hacker

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.
George Jean Nathan

I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart.
Diana Ross

Foremost Translations

foremost in German is erst, vorderst
foremost in Latin is primoris
foremost in Norwegian is forrest, fremst

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