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UK
/fˈɔːməʊst/
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[ US /ˈfɔɹˌmoʊst/ ]
[ US /ˈfɔɹˌmoʊst/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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situated closest to the bow
the foremost compartment of the ship
the foremost compartment of the ship -
preceding all others in spatial position
the foremost compartment of the ship
the foremost compartment of the ship -
ranking above all others
the top graduate
was first in her class
the foremost figure among marine artists
ADVERB
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prominently forward
he put his best foot foremost -
before anything else
first we must consider the garter snake
How To Use foremost In A Sentence
- It is the final guard against nationalistic states that sought the betterment of their people first and foremost and not that of some hypothetical global village or for the internationalistic elite. Pravda blames trotskyites for u.s. empire
- He was one of the world's foremost scholars of ancient Indian culture.
- To see that sanity can for once prevail over the country's foremost fresh foods market should please all.
- At least, this was the method proposed by its foremost expositors.
- After releasing it, he burst out with the question that was foremost in his thoughts.
- Cromwell's role at Putney was first and foremost as chair and ringmaster.
- And the Master, seated in conclave in the Jeta Grove, assigned her the foremost rank in the mystic powers. Psalms of the Sisters
- Turn your tail up to me, and I'll pull you through hindforemost, and then you won't stick in the spikes. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2
- The reflections and soliloquies of Artamène recur; but a not unimportant, although subordinate, new character appears -- not as the first example, but as the foremost representative, in the novel, of the great figure of the "confidante" -- in Martésie, Mandane's chief maid of honour. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
- But first and foremost, it is a waltz, and that stubborn three-four tempo should inform every bar. Globe and Mail