Word.ws English Dictionary

preëminent

preëminent is the alternative spelling of preeminent.

Meaning of preeminent

Adjective

preeminent (not comparable)

  1. Exceeding others in quality or rank; of outstanding excellence, extremely notable or important.
    • China is still preeminent for its Goldfish, of which Pennant informs us that the most beautiful kinds, both for elegance of shape and richness of tinting, are taken in a small lake in the Province of Che-kyang.1863, H. Cholmondeley-Pennell, “The Carp Family”, in The Angler-Naturalist: A Popular History of British Fresh-water Fish, with a Plain Explanation of the Rudiments of Ichthyology, London: George...

Questions about preëminent

What is preëminent the alternative spelling of?
Preëminent is the alternative spelling of preeminent.

Words near preëminent in the dictionary

  1. preëclampsia
  2. preëclampsias
  3. preëlection
  4. preëlections
  5. preëminence
  6. preëminent
  7. preëminently
  8. preëmpt
  9. preëmpted
  10. preëmptible
  11. preëmpting

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: preëminent (page history and authors); preeminent (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “preëminent.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pre%C3%ABminent. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.