more important, more successful or of a higher standard than others 杰出的；出类拔萃的；卓越的 a pre-eminent example of the artist’s work 这位艺术家杰出的代表作 Dickens was pre-eminent among English writers of his day. 狄更斯在其同时期英国作家中最为出色。 🔊🔊
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPre-eminent is used with these nouns:- position
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin praeeminent- ‘towering above, excelling’, from the verb praeeminere, from prae ‘before’ + eminere ‘stand out’.