preeminent
adjective
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What is noteworthy about the following sentence? "Denali Mountain is a prominent eminence on the Alaskan landscape." You very likely recognized two words that are closely related to preeminent: prominent and eminence. All three words are rooted in the Latin verb stem -minēre, meaning "to stand out." Mount is also a related word: it comes from Latin mont- or mons, meaning "mountain," which shares a common ancestor with -minēre. Mount leads us in turn to paramount, a word closely related in meaning to preeminent.
Examples of preeminent in a Sentence
Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 3 Apr. 2025
Founded in 1987 as the preeminent international membership organization for galleries, dealers, and publishers specializing in prints and editions, the IFPDA Print Fair is the longest-running and largest international art fair dedicated to prints and editions.
—Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
Our Nation's Courts are broken, with New York and D.C. being the most preeminent of all in their Corruption and Radicalism.
—Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
At that point, the quartet was adjusting to life after Syd Barrett, the frontman whose songs had positioned his group as one of England’s preeminent psychedelic bands before his erratic behavior prompted Pink Floyd to fire him.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2025
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“Preeminent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/preeminent. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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