OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 47602

first among equals

Meanings (ES + gloss)
primero entre iguales
A person or position that is formally of equal rank to others in a group, but nonetheless takes a leading role within that group.
I wonder whether Margaret Thatcher, Harold Macmillan, Winston Churchill, Lloyd George, Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone (going back in time) thought of themselves as mere fi…
The Orthodox consider the bishop of Rome to have always been merely a first among equals.
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