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Wordnet 3.0

ADVERB (2)

1. above and beyond all other consideration;
- Example: "above all, you must be independent"
[syn: above all, most importantly, most especially]

2. taking everything together;
- Example: "she was first and last a scientist"
[syn: first and last, above all]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Above \A*bove"\, prep. [OE. above, aboven, abuffe, AS. abufon;
   an (or on) on + be by + ufan upward; cf. Goth. uf under.
   [root]199. See Over.]
   1. In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper
      surface; over; -- opposed to below or beneath.
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            Fowl that may fly above the earth.    --Gen. i. 20.
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   2. Figuratively, higher than; superior to in any respect;
      surpassing; beyond; higher in measure or degree than; as,
      things above comprehension; above mean actions; conduct
      above reproach. "Thy worth . . . is actions above my
      gifts." --Marlowe.
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            I saw in the way a light from heaven above the
            brightness of the sun.                --Acts xxxvi.
                                                  13.
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   3. Surpassing in number or quantity; more than; as, above a
      hundred. (Passing into the adverbial sense. See Above,
      adv., 4.)
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   above all, before every other consideration; chiefly; in
      preference to other things.
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   Over and above, prep. or adv., besides; in addition to.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

above all
    adv 1: above and beyond all other consideration; "above all, you
           must be independent" [syn: above all, most
           importantly, most especially]
    2: taking everything together; "she was first and last a
       scientist" [syn: first and last, above all]