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preeminence

/pree-em-uh-nuhns/US // priˈɛm ə nəns //

尊贵,尊贵性,优势,尊崇

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the state or character of being preeminent.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nouneminence

Examples

  • The investment comes just as the venerable investment firm has achieved unprecedented preeminence on Wall Street.

  • Of external causes of cold the third is, a striving for preeminence between married partners, n. 248.

  • Not only are the paths of preeminence untrodden; the purlieus of brutish ignorance are likewise unfrequented.

  • He had never known youth, he had not therefore been disturbed by its pangs for instant preeminence.

  • The intellectual preeminence of Mrs. Markham was equally, and no less ostentatiously, granted.

  • They were in a continued quarrel contesting the preeminence.