"pre-eminence" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1962 August, \"Mercury\", “The fastest trains on the Continent, 1962: II—Western Germany”, in Modern Railways, page 125",
          "text": "While the Deutsche Bundesbahn has not reattained the pre-eminence in European railway speed that the German railways enjoyed before the 1939-1945 war, speeds in that country are steadily moving upwards [...].",
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