PREEMINENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does preeminent mean? 

• PREEMINENT (adjective)
  The adjective PREEMINENT has 1 sense:

1. greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement

  Familiarity information: PREEMINENT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREEMINENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement

Synonyms:

leading; preeminent

Context example:

a preeminent archeologist

Similar:

superior (of or characteristic of high rank or importance)

Derivation:

preeminence (high status importance owing to marked superiority)

 Context examples 

Just released first images from the National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope reveal unprecedented detail of the sun’s surface and preview the world-class products to come from this preeminent 4-meter solar telescope.

(Newest solar telescope produces first images, National Science Foundation)

He was in high spirits, doing everything with happy ease, and preeminent in all the lively turns, quick resources, and playful impudence that could do honour to the game; and the round table was altogether a very comfortable contrast to the steady sobriety and orderly silence of the other.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)