different between character vs premier

English

Etymology

From Middle English caracter, from Old French caractere, from Latin character, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kharakt?r, “type, nature, character”), from ??????? (kharáss?, “I engrave”). Doublet of charakter.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??(?)kt?/, /?kæ?(?)kt?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kæ??kt?/
• Hyphenation: char?ac?ter

Noun

character (countable and uncountable, plural characters)

1. (countable) A being involved in the action of a story.
2. (countable) A distinguishing feature; characteristic; trait; phene.

3. (uncountable, countable) A complex of traits marking a person, group, breed, or type.

   • A man of […] thoroughly subservient character

4. (uncountable) Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; moral strength.

5. (countable) A unique or extraordinary individual; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits, especially charisma.

6. (countable) A written or printed symbol, or letter.
   • 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech

     It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye.

7. (countable, dated) Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the particular form of letters used by a person or people.
8. (countable, dated) A secret cipher; a way of writing in code.
9. (countable, computing) One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character.
10. (countable, informal) A person or individual, especially one who is unknown or raises suspicions.

11. (countable, mathematics) A complex number representing an element of a finite Abelian group.
12. (countable) Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty.

13. (countable, dated) The estimate, individual or general, put upon a person or thing; reputation.

    • This subterraneous passage is much mended since Seneca gave so bad a character of it.

14. (countable, dated) A reference given to a servant, attesting to their behaviour, competence, etc.
15. (countable, obsolete) Personal appearance.

Usage notes

Character is sometimes used interchangeably with reputation, but the two words have different meanings; character describes the distinctive qualities of an individual or group while reputation describes the opinions held by others regarding an individual or group. Character is internal and authentic, while reputation is external and perceived.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Pages starting with “character”.

Translations

Verb

character (third-person singular simple present characters, present participle charactering, simple past and past participle charactered)

1. (obsolete) To write (using characters); to describe.

See also

• codepoint
• font
• glyph
• letter
• symbol
• rune
• pictogram

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ???????? (kharakt?r).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /k?a?rak.ter/, [k?ä??äkt??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka?rak.ter/, [k????kt??r]

Noun

character m (genitive charact?ris); third declension

1. branding iron
2. brand (made by a branding iron)
3. characteristic, mark, character, style

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• Hungarian: karakter
• Galician: caritel; ? carácter
• Irish: carachtar
• Italian: carattere
• Old French: caractere
  • ? English: character
  • French: caractère
• Polish: charakter
  • ? Russian: ????????? (xarákter)
• Portuguese: caractere, carácter
• Sicilian: caràttiri
• Spanish: carácter

References

• character in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• character in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• character in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Portuguese

Noun

character m (plural characteres)

1. Obsolete spelling of caráter (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French premier (adjective), from Latin pr?m?rius. Doublet of primary.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??.mi.??/, /?p??m.j??/, /?p??.mi.?/, /?p??m.j?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /p???m???/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?p?imj?/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?p?emj?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Adjective

premier (not comparable)

1. Foremost; first or highest in quality or degree.
   • 2004, Philip Moore, Scouting an Anthropology of Sport, Anthropologica, Volume 46, Number 1, Canadian Anthropology Society, page 40,

     This failure, for a team associated with one of the premier Australian Rules Football teams with the longest of traditions, is truly enormous.

   • 2011, Kate Askew, Dot. Bomb Australia, Read How You Want, page 70,

     If they?d followed the advice they had received more carefully, they would have paired up with John Fairfax Holdings, later Fairfax Media, Australia?s premier independent media company.

   • 2011, Pippa de Bruyn, Keith Bain, Frommer?s South Africa, 7th Edition, unnumbered page,

     South Africa?s golfing greats battle it out on one of the country?s premier courses.

2. (heraldry) Most ancient.

Translations

See also

• preeminent, primary, prime

Noun

premier (plural premiers)

1. (politics, Britain, Westminster system) The head of government in parliament and leader of the cabinet.
   1. (politics, UK parliament) The prime minister.
      • 1871 July 29, “Our Tyrant”, The Spectator, Volume 303, Issues 9308-9315, page 910,

        Mr. Gladstone had literally no option. Not to coerce the Lords was to coerce the Commons to continue purchase in spite of their repeated votes for its abolition, and this the Premier had as little the power as the will to do.

   2. (politics, Australia, Canada, South Africa) The leader of a state or provincial government and cabinet.
      • 1974, Irving M. Abella, On Strike; Six Key Labour Struggles in Canada, 1919-1949, page 96,

        More surprising than the company?s activities and interests were those of the premier of Ontario, Mitchell Hepburn.

      • 1986, R. Kenneth Carty, National Politics and Community in Canada, page 116,

        The major concern of most of the premiers who attended the 1887 conference was, as Macdonald well understood, to put pressure upoon Ottawa to amend the B.N.A. Act to increase the subsidies paid to the provinces by tying them to current population levels rather than those of 1860.

      • 2007, Patrick Moray Weller, Cabinet Government in Australia, 1901-2006: Practice, Principles, Performance, page 1,

        John Forrest had dominated the fledgling state of Western Australia, serving as premier for the previous decade.

      • 2009, Andrew Stewart, John Spoehr (editor), Chapter 16: Industrial Relations, State of South Australia: From Crisis to Prosperity?, page 302,

        In 1890 it was South Australian Premier Charles Cameron Kingston who first proposed a system of compulsory conciliation and arbitration to deal with industrial unrest.

      • 2011, Jennifer Curtin, Marian Sawer, 4: Oceania, Gretchen Bauer, Manon Tremblay (editors), Women in Executive Power: A Global Overview, page 56,

        In 2009 Kristina Keneally became Labor premier in NSW in similar circumstances to her predecessors in Western Australia and Victoria - a Labor government that was in deep trouble because of mismanagement and corruption scandals.

2. (politics, non-Westminster) The government leader in a legislative congress or leader of a government-level administrative body; the head of government.
   • 1983, Guo Zhou, China & the World, Volume 4, Beijing Review, page 13,

     This shows that our policy of strengthening friendly ties with Africa as developed by Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai is a correct one and that it has won popular support in Africa.

   • 1998, The New Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 16, page 61,

     Actual decision-making power in China resides in the state?s executive organs and in the CCP. At the national level the top government executive organ is the State Council, which is led by the premier.

   • 2008, Steffen W. Schmidt, Mack C. Shelley, Barbara A. Bardes, American Government & Politics Today, page 470,

     So, in the case of Russia and some other states, the head of state is the president (who is elected) and who then can name the premier and the cabinet ministers. The intent of this system is for the president to be popularly elected and to exercise political leadership, while the premier runs the everyday operations of government and leads the legislative power.

3. (nautical, slang) The first lieutenant or other second-in-command officer of a ship.
4. (Australia, sporting) The champion team of a particular season (especially as used in Australian rules football).

Usage notes

Often capitalised, especially when used as a title. In British English, prime minister and premier are interchangeable, while in Australia and Canada, the federal leader is the prime minister and the state/provincial leaders are premiers. The term prime minister is commonly a synonym also in non-Westminster system contexts

Synonyms

• (parliamentary leader of government and leader of cabinet in a national parliament): prime minister, first minister
• (parliamentary leader of government and leader of cabinet in a state or provincial parliament): first minister
• (head of government in a non-Westminster system): prime minister
• (second-in-command on a ship): first lieutenant, first mate

Translations

See also

• premiere
• king, queen, president
• governor
• first minister

Verb

premier (third-person singular simple present premiers, present participle premiering, simple past and past participle premiered)

1. To perform, display or exhibit for the first time.

   The composer invited all his friends when they premiered the movie he orchestrated, we got to see it before anyone but the crew.

   • 1998, John Herschel Baron, Intimate Music: A History of the Idea of Chamber Music, page 231,

     Beethoven at first promised Schuppanzigh the right to premier Opus 127, but Linke, cellist in Schuppanzigh?s Quartet, had also received Beethoven?s permission to premier the work at a special benefit concert for himself.

   • 2000, W. Royal Stokes, Living the Jazz Life: Conversations With Forty Musicians About Their Careers in Jazz, page 97,

     So what I want to do is try to premier the new piece with the other piece, and have just a big splash in the city.

   • 2010, Murry R. Nelson, The Rolling Stones: A Musical Biography, page 56,

     To premier the record and to show that they were still able to perform, the Stones made a surprise appearance at the New Musical Express Poll Winners Concert on May 12 in Wembley Stadium.

2. To govern in the role of premier.

Anagrams

• reprime

Dutch

Etymology

Shortening of premier minister.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pr??mje?/
• Hyphenation: pre?mier
• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

premier m (plural premiers, diminutive premiertje n)

1. prime minister

   Synonym: minister-president

Derived terms

• premierbonus
• premierschap

French

Alternative forms

• (abbreviation, in general) 1^er m, 1^re or 1^ère f
• (abbreviation, after names) I

Etymology

From Middle French premier, from Old French premier, from Latin pr?m?rius. Doublet of primaire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.mje/

Adjective

premier (feminine singular première, masculine plural premiers, feminine plural premières)

1. first

   Le premier élément de la liste est un zéro.

   The first element of the list is zero.

2. prime (number etc)

Derived terms

Noun

premier m (plural premiers, feminine première)

1. first

   Il est le premier.

   He is the first.

2. premier
3. prime minister

Adverb

premier

1. first

   Il joue premier

   he is playing first

Further reading

• “premier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• empirer, réprime, réprimé

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• prömier (nonstandard)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pr?mij?r]
• Hyphenation: pre?mi?er
• Rhymes: -?r

Noun

premier (plural premierek)

1. premiere (the first showing of a film, play or other form of entertainment)

Declension

Derived terms

• filmpremier

Further reading

• premier in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Italian

Etymology

From English or French premier. Doublet of primario.

Noun

premier m or f (invariable)

1. premier, prime minister (or similar title)

Derived terms

• vicepremier

Anagrams

• reprime

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French premier, from Latin primarius.

Adjective

premier m (feminine singular premiere, masculine plural premiers, feminine plural premieres)

1. first (ordinal number)

Descendants

• French: premier

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

premier m

1. indefinite plural of premie

Old French

Alternative forms

• premer
• primer
• primur

Etymology

From Latin pr?m?rius.

Adjective

premier m (oblique and nominative feminine singular premiere)

1. first

Declension

Derived terms

• premierement

Adverb

premier

1. first

Noun

premier m (oblique plural premiers, nominative singular premiers, nominative plural premier)

1. first

2. beginning; start

Descendants

• Middle French: premier
  • French: premier
  • ? English: premier
• Norman: preunmyi

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French premier (“first”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pr?.m??r/

Noun

premier m pers

1. prime minister

Declension

Noun

premier f

1. genitive plural of premiera

Further reading

• premier in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French premier.

Noun

premier m (plural premieri)

1. prime minister

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French premier (literally “first”).

Noun

premier m or f (plural premieres)

1. premier (head of government)

Swedish

Noun

premier

1. indefinite plural of premie

Tatar

Noun

premier

1. Latin spelling of ??????? (prem’yer)