paramount
IPA: pˈɛrʌmaʊnt
noun
- A chief or superior; (specifically, chiefly South Africa) an African chief having the highest status in a region; a paramount chief.
- (obsolete) A supreme ruler; an overlord; (specifically, historical) in the feudal system, a landowner who did not derive ownership of the land from anyone else, and who was able to grant fees to others; a lord paramount.
- A city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
adjective
- (often postpositive) Highest, supreme; also, chief, leading, pre-eminent.
- Of the highest importance.
- (obsolete) Of a law, right, etc.: having precedence over or superior to another.
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Examples of "paramount" in Sentences
- The prescriptive element is paramount.
- The maintanence of the projects is paramount.
- This makes the skills of the driver paramount.
- I am the representative of the paramount power.
- The paramount point is confidence in the report.
- But the artisan skill of the makers is paramount.
- The pursuit of knowledge is paramount to the scholar.
- The safety of the public is of the paramount concern.
- At the apex of the status hierarchy sits the paramount.
- It is the title given to the paramount chiefs in the Marshall Islands.
- He mentioned the word paramount, that the will of the people has to be considered here.
- This line about happiness being paramount is particularly irritating from supposedly religious people.
- “What’s paramount is getting the toys right,” Ted Koplar, president of St. Louis-based WEP told Daily Variety.
- Shakspere's influence it might be expected that his would have been the name paramount among the pioneers of English romanticism.
- In this case also the consideration which becomes paramount is the possibility of pre - serving the unity of the two great races that are joint partners in Confederation.
- As long as he did not possess her she knew that emotion would remain paramount over judgment – that the longing to win her would triumph over the desire to improve what he had won.
- What's harder to accept, from an author for whom character has always been paramount, is the lack of dimensionality in both Hector and Sylvie, who manage to seem vaporous and wooden at the same time ...
- So if the lessor be evicted [foreclosed??] of a part of the land demised, by a stranger on title paramount, it operates as a suspension of the rent pro Canto, and the rent is apportioned and payable only in respect of the residue. lb.
- At one extreme of these is the proceeding in rem of the admiralty, which conclusively disposes of the property in its power, and, when it sells or condemns it, does not deal with this or that man's title, but gives a new title paramount to all previous interests, whatsoever they may be.
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