Usually means: Of utmost importance or significance.
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General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. Paramount, paramount: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Paramount, paramount: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Paramount, paramount: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. paramount: Collins English Dictionary
  5. paramount: Vocabulary.com
  6. Paramount, paramount: Wordnik
  7. paramount: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. paramount: Wiktionary
  9. paramount: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. paramount: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. paramount: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. paramount: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. paramount: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Paramount (Shanghai), Paramount, The Paramount (apartment tower), The Paramount: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Paramount: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. paramount: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. paramount: Rhymezone
  18. paramount: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. paramount: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. paramount: Free Dictionary
  21. paramount: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. paramount: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. Paramount: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Paramount, paramount: Dictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. paramount: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. paramount: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Paramount: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Paramount: Bicycle Glossary

(Note: See paramountcy as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (often postpositive) Highest, supreme; also, chief, leading, pre-eminent.
adjective:  Of the highest importance.
adjective:  (obsolete) Of a law, right, etc.: having precedence over or superior to another.
noun:  A chief or superior; (specifically, chiefly South Africa) an African chief having the highest status in a region; a paramount chief.
noun:  (obsolete) A supreme ruler; an overlord; (specifically, historical) in the feudal system, a landowner who did not derive ownership of the land from anyone else, and who was able to grant fees to others; a lord paramount.
noun:  A city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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