Idiom
number one
Meaning
First; foremost; best, often used after its headword.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“My family is my number one priority.”
“She practiced every day because her goal was to become the number one tennis player in the country.”
“While the company focuses on innovation, customer satisfaction remains their number one objective for long-term success.”
Examples
simple
“My family is my number one priority.”
contextual
“She practiced every day because her goal was to become the number one tennis player in the country.”
complex
“While the company focuses on innovation, customer satisfaction remains their number one objective for long-term success.”
Origin
The term is a piecewise doublet of the Spanish or Italian *numero uno*.
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