Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective First in status or importance; principal or chief.
- adjective First to occur or exist; earliest.
- noun A prime minister.
- noun A chief administrative officer, as of a Canadian province.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In roulette, a bet that one of the numbers from 1 to 12 inclusive will win.
- To govern as premier; serve as prime minister.
- First in importance; chief.
- 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.
- noun The first minister of state; the prime or premier minister.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective First; chief; principal
- adjective Most ancient; -- said of the peer bearing the oldest title of his degree.
- noun The first minister of state; the prime minister.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Foremost; first or highest in quality or degree.
- noun politics, UK The leader of the
government inparliament and leader of thecabinet . - noun politics The government leader in a legislative congress or leader of a government-level administrative body; the
head of government . - noun nautical, slang The
first lieutenant or othersecond-in-command officer of a ship. - verb To perform, display or exhibit for the first time.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be performed for the first time
- noun the person who holds the position of head of the government in the United Kingdom
- adjective preceding all others in time
- adjective first in rank or degree
- noun the person who is head of state (in several countries)
- verb perform a work for the first time
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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I was the first one to do it, the first white man to run under 10 seconds," he says, the phrase "premier blanc" – the first white – rolling easily off his tongue."
Christophe Lemaitre, France's premier blanc, seeks grand cru status 2011
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I was the first one to do it, the first white man to run under 10 seconds," he says, the phrase "premier blanc" – the first white – rolling easily off his tongue."
Christophe Lemaitre, France's premier blanc, seeks grand cru status 2011
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The date of the premier is my birthday and I can think of no better way to spend the evening than seeing this movie!
Want to see a free screening of Julie & Julia? | Baking Bites 2009
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The new program will offer four tiers to what it calls "premier," or elite, participants - 1K (for travelers with 100,000 qualifying miles), platinum (75,000 miles), gold (50,000 miles) and silver (25,000 miles) - rather than the three elite tiers the two airlines' programs had before.
NYT > Home Page By JANE L. LEVERE 2011
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Phillips wouldn't admit it, but he's already throwing punches to keep what he called the premier job in the NFL.
unknown title 2009
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Sadly it looks like a second term in office for the former Portuguese premier is now inevitable.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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The premier is traveling with chinese business leaders and eight members of his Cabinet.
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The premier is traveling with chinese business leaders and eight members of his Cabinet.
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Sadly it looks like a second term in office for the former Portuguese premier is now inevitable.
Bored with Barroso 2009
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The reason why that Canadian provincial premier is in the states for the operation is because as a much larger country, we have many more surgeons, and have developed more sophisticated surgical methods than his own county with a population barely equal to that of New York State.
Matthew Yglesias » Wherever It Exists, Socialized Medicine is Popular 2010
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