What is the meaning of Paramount?

Highest, supreme; also, chief, leading, pre-eminent.

Of the highest importance.

Of a law, right, etc.: having precedence over or superior to another.

A chief or superior; an African chief having the highest status in a region; a paramount chief.

A supreme ruler; an overlord; in the feudal system, a landowner who did not derive ownership of the land from anyone else, and who was able to grant fees to others; a lord paramount.

Source: wiktionary.org