PRE-EMINENT


Meaning of PRE-EMINENT in English

Note: in AM, usually use 'preeminent'

If someone or something is ~ in a group, they are more important, powerful, or capable than other people or things in the group. (FORMAL)

...his fifty years as the ~ political figure in the country...

ADJ

pre-eminence

...London’s continuing pre-eminence among European financial centres...

N-UNCOUNT

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