above all : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: above all	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
above all adv above and beyond all other consideration; "above all, you must be independent" Synonym(s): above all, most importantly, most especially taking everything together; "she was first and last a scientist" Synonym(s): first and last, above all
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Above \A*bove"\, prep. [OE. above, aboven, abuffe, AS. abufon; an (or on) on + be by + ufan upward; cf. Goth. uf under. [fb]199. See {Over}.] 1. In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface; over; -- opposed to {below} or {beneath}. Fowl that may fly above the earth. --Gen. i. 20. 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. [bd]Thy worth . . . is actions above my gifts.[b8] --Marlowe. I saw in the way a light from heaven above the brightness of the sun. --Acts xxxvi. 13. 3. Surpassing in number or quantity; more than; as, above a hundred. (Passing into the adverbial sense. See {Above}, adv., 4.) {above all}, before every other consideration; chiefly; in preference to other things. {Over and above}, prep. or adv., besides; in addition to.