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first and foremost en · ADV

Meanings

1. (not-comparable, qualifier:set phrase) Primarily; most importantly.
   • "There are many things to be considered before that question can be answered properly," I said, sententiously. "First and foremost, do you love Mr. Edgar?" 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:
   • That progress has taken over ten years and £20 million to bring to fruition. But, as Mands explains, the journey has been one that HSG has been almost obligated to undertake. "First and foremost, this is an environmental project," she says. 2023 December 27, Richard Foster, “New rail freight terminal leads the way”, in RAIL, number 999, page 39:
   • By addressing these questions, we hope, first and foremost, to learn more about the generally under-studied topic of Esperanto communication and, secondly, to contribute to research that goes beyond Esperanto and can have an impact on the work of researchers in other (linguistic) disciplines. 2022, Sabine Fiedler, Cyril Robert Brosch, “The aim of this book” (chapter 4), in Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 20:
   • First and foremost, there is currently lacking any single text which comes close to cataloguing the great variety of terms in use. 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 2:

Synonyms

chiefly · first and foremost · above all · especially · particularly · above all · namely · primarily

Translations (31)

de in erster Linie (primarily; most importantly) · fr d’abord et avant tout (primarily; most importantly) · he בָּרֹאשׁ וּבָרִאשׁוֹנָה (primarily; most importantly) · ja 何よりもまず (primarily; most importantly) · ga thar aon rud eile (primarily; most importantly) · sv framförallt (primarily; most importantly) · ru в пе́рвую о́чередь (primarily; most importantly) · fo fyrst og fremst (primarily; most importantly) · de vor allem (primarily; most importantly) · vi trước nhất (primarily; most importantly) · nl op de allereerste plaats (primarily; most importantly) · is fyrst og fremst (primarily; most importantly) · nb først og fremst (primarily; most importantly) · da først og fremmest (primarily; most importantly) · sv i första hand (primarily; most importantly) · cs na prvním místě (primarily; most importantly) · pt primeiramente e sobretudo (primarily; most importantly) · sv först och främst (primarily; most importantly) · vi trước hết (primarily; most importantly) · es sobretodo (primarily; most importantly) · ru пре́жде всего́ (primarily; most importantly) · he קֹדֶם כָּל (primarily; most importantly) · fi ennen kaikkea (primarily; most importantly) · is aðallega (primarily; most importantly) · fr avant tout (primarily; most importantly) · cmn 首先 (primarily; most importantly) · hu mindenekelőtt (primarily; most importantly) · ar بَادِئَ ذِي بَدْءٍ (primarily; most importantly) · nn først og fremst (primarily; most importantly) · es antes que nada (primarily; most importantly) · hu elsősorban (primarily; most importantly)