Read Edit View history 名列前茅 mínglièqiánmáo to be among the best Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 名列前茅 mínglièqiánmáo to be among the best To rank at the top; to be among the highest-ranked candidates. Originally referring to scouts who carried reed flags at the front of a marching army, it is now used to describe academic or competitive success. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.480 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 2.67 per million Cross-References Synonym 首屈一指 shǒuqūyīzhǐAntonym 榜上无名 bǎngshàngwúmíng名落孙山 míngluòsūnshān Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
名列前茅 mínglièqiánmáo to be among the best To rank at the top; to be among the highest-ranked candidates. Originally referring to scouts who carried reed flags at the front of a marching army, it is now used to describe academic or competitive success. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.480 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 2.67 per million Cross-References Synonym 首屈一指 shǒuqūyīzhǐAntonym 榜上无名 bǎngshàngwúmíng名落孙山 míngluòsūnshān Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)