Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The first public performance, as of a movie or play.
- v. To present the first public performance of.
- v. To have the first public performance.
- v. To make a first appearance in a public performance.
- adj. First or paramount; premier.
Wiktionary
- n. The first showing of a film, play or other form of entertainment, often held as a special event with celebrity guests.
- n. The first episode of a television show or a particular season of that show.
- n. In a series of narrative works, the installment that is chronologically set first.
- v. intransitive Of a film or play, to play for the first time.
- v. transitive To present a film or play for the first time.
Etymologies
- From French première "first" (Wiktionary)
- French première, from feminine of premier, first; see premier. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“All plot and no point, the second-season premiere is chemistry - and humor-free.”
“Certainly, there were few better visual tricks in premiere week than CSI's opener: a prolonged Matrix-like frozen effect that showed us the results of a morgue gun battle.”
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“This woman turned the frozen donkey wheel and somehow ended up at a Charlie Chaplin premiere: As anyone who has dug up every "Lost" DVD easter egg knows, there is an obscure deleted scene from the show in which Ben Linus turns the wheel and winds up at the 2002 premiere of "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.”
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