Foremost
[fawr-mohst, -muh st, fohr-] /ˈfɔrˌmoʊst, -məst, ˈfoʊr-/
adjective, adverb
1.
first in place, order, rank, etc.:
the foremost surgeons.
/ˈfɔːˌməʊst/
adjective, adverb
1.
first in time, place, rank, etc
adj.
Old English fyrmest “earliest, first, most prominent,” from Proto-Germanic *formo- (related to Old English fruma “beginning”), superlative of the root of fore + additional superlative suffix -est. Cf. -most, and cf. also Old Frisian formest, Gothic frumists. Altered on the assumption that it is a compound of fore and most.
see: first and foremost
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