first and foremost

first and foremost

English

Adverb

first and foremost

1. (set phrase) Primarily; most importantly.
   • 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], OCLC 156123328:

     "There are many things to be considered before that question can be answered properly," I said, sententiously. "First and foremost, do you love Mr. Edgar?"

   • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎, page 2:

     First and foremost, there is currently lacking any single text which comes close to cataloguing the great variety of terms in use.

Synonyms

• above all; see also Thesaurus:above all

Translations

primarily; most importantly

Chinese: Mandarin: 首先 (zh) (shǒuxiān) Czech: na prvním místě (cs) Danish: først og fremmest Dutch: op de allereerste plaats Faroese: fyrst og fremst Finnish: ennen kaikkea (fi) French: d’abord et avant tout (fr), avant tout (fr) German: vor allem (de), in erster Linie (de) Hebrew: בָּרֺאשׁ וּבָרִאשׁוֹנָה‎ (he) (ba-rósh u-va-rishoná), קֺדֶם כָּל‎ (kódem kol) Hungarian: elsősorban (hu), mindenekelőtt (hu) Icelandic: fyrst og fremst, aðallega (is) Irish: thar aon rud eile Japanese: 何よりもまず (nani yori mo mazu) Norwegian: Bokmål: først og fremst Nynorsk: først og fremst Portuguese: primeiramente e sobretudo Russian: в пе́рвую о́чередь (ru) (v pérvuju óčeredʹ), пре́жде всего́ (ru) (préžde vsevó) Spanish: antes que nada, sobretodo (es) Swedish: först och främst (sv), framförallt (sv), i första hand Vietnamese: trước hết (vi), trước nhất (vi)