Usually means: Most importantly, before everything else.
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  1. above all: Merriam-Webster
  2. above all: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. above all: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. above all: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  10. above all: Rhymezone
  11. above all: FreeDictionary.org
  12. above all: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  14. above all: Merriam-Webster

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  1. above all: Legal dictionary

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  1. above all: Idioms

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Definitions from WordNet (above all)

▸ adverb:  above and beyond all other consideration ("Above all, you must be independent")
▸ adverb:  taking everything together

Similar:
first and last, most especially, most importantly, above mentioned, abovementioned, uppermost, topmost, foremost, abovesaid, all that, more...

Opposite:
below all, beneath all, under all

Types:
paramount, predominant, preeminent, supreme, more...

Phrases:
above all else, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, one above all, above all others, above it all, more...

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Similar:
first and last, most especially, most importantly, above mentioned, abovementioned, uppermost, topmost, foremost, abovesaid, all that, more...

Opposite:
below all, beneath all, under all

Types:
paramount, predominant, preeminent, supreme, more...

Phrases:
above all else, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, one above all, above all others, above it all, rising above all odds, above all supreme, important above all else, rise above it all, more...



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