ABOVE ALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does above all mean? 

• ABOVE ALL (adverb)
  The adverb ABOVE ALL has 2 senses:

1. above and beyond all other consideration

2. taking everything together

  Familiarity information: ABOVE ALL used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABOVE ALL (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Above and beyond all other consideration

Synonyms:

above all; most especially; most importantly

Context example:

above all, you must be independent

Sense 2

Meaning:

Taking everything together

Synonyms:

above all; first and last

Context example:

she was first and last a scientist

 Context examples 

His very love elevated her above all classes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

What I wanted above all was to get the missing part of that note.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Above all, he was amazed to hear me talk of a mercenary standing army, in the midst of peace, and among a free people.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Romantically, Venus will be in Sagittarius from November 1 to November 25, favoring you above all others.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“This is due to the fact that there are tremendous obstacles: identifying suitable catalysts and reactions and, above all, delivering the catalysts directly into the target cells, and not others.”

(Scientists successfully deliver “Trojan horse” catalysts into cancerous tumour cells to destroy them from within, Universities of Granada)

And, above all, take care of yourself in the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My friend, who loved above all things precision and concentration of thought, resented anything which distracted his attention from the matter in hand.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Among these there was one which attracted my mother far above all the rest.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Above all, an heir to the throne had been born in Bordeaux, and the prince might leave his spouse with an easy mind, for all was well with mother and with child.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He won their money, but above all he won papers from his elder brother which meant a great deal to him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)