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How to pronounce “paramount”
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Pronunciation guide for paramount
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of paramount with real speech in context.
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- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Hawk Koch
my dad became head of Paramount.
- Definition summary
- (often postpositive) Highest, supreme; also, chief, leading, pre-eminent.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce paramount
Hawk Koch
my dad became head of Paramount.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “paramount”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- (often postpositive) Highest, supreme; also, chief, leading, pre-eminent.
- Of the highest importance.
- (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.
- (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.
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Similar Sounds
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