premier

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. First in status or importance; principal or chief: an architect of premier rank.
2. adj. First to occur or exist; earliest.
3. n. A prime minister.
4. n. A chief administrative officer, as of a Canadian province.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. First in importance; chief.
2. First in time; earliest in appearance or occurrence; specifically, in the English peerage, first in the order of precedence, which is now the order of date of creation.
3. n. The first minister of state; the prime or premier minister.
4. To govern as premier; serve as prime minister.
5. n. In roulette, a bet that one of the numbers from 1 to 12 inclusive will win.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Foremost; first or highest in quality or degree.
2. n. politics, UK The leader of the government in parliament and leader of the cabinet.
3. n. politics The government leader in a legislative congress or leader of a government-level administrative body; the head of government.
4. n. nautical, slang The first lieutenant or other second-in-command officer of a ship.
5. v. To perform, display or exhibit for the first time.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. First; chief; principal.
2. adj. Most ancient; -- said of the peer bearing the oldest title of his degree.
3. n. The first minister of state; the prime minister.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. be performed for the first time
2. n. the person who holds the position of head of the government in the United Kingdom
3. adj. preceding all others in time
4. adj. first in rank or degree
5. n. the person who is head of state (in several countries)
6. v. perform a work for the first time