adjective. Of chief concern or importance.

adjective. Highest in rank, power, or authority.

noun. One that has the highest rank, power, or authority.

Supreme; superior in power or jurisdiction; chief: as, lord paramount, the supreme lord of a fee, or of lands, tenements, and hereditaments.

Above; superior to: with a prepositional force.

Eminent; of the highest order; especially, of chief or superior importance; above all others as regards importance; superior: as, the paramount duty of a citizen.

noun. The chief; the highest in rank or importance; a superior.

noun. The highest or chief.

adjective. Having the highest rank or jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme; preëminent.

adjective. the lady making the best score.

adjective. the king.

adjective. Supreme; highest.

adjective. having superior power and influence

"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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