different between premier vs beginning

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)

English

Alternative forms

• begynnynge (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?g?'n?ng, IPA^(key): /b????.n??/

Etymology 1

From Middle English biginning, beginninge, beginnunge, equivalent to begin +? -ing.

Noun

beginning (countable and uncountable, plural beginnings)

1. (uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.
2. That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
3. That which begins or originates something; the source or first cause.

   What was the beginning of the dispute?

4. The initial portion of some extended thing.

   The author describes the main character's youth at the beginning of the story.

   That house is at the beginning of the street.

   • 1975, Frances Keinzley, The Cottage at Chapelyard, page 179,

     "Is anything the matter?" Lady Lindstrom asked anxiously.

     "No," Megan told her. "I'm merely trying to decide where the beginning is."

     "Perhaps at the beginning," the Chief Constable prompted, rather stupidly, Megan thought.

     "Which beginning?" she asked.

Usage notes

"In the beginning" is an idiomatic expression that means "at first, initially"; it does not mean the same as "at the beginning".

The meaning of "at the beginning" is clear from its parts. This expression is used to refer to the time when or place where something starts; it is used to refer to points in time and space and also to fairly long periods of time and fairly large extents of space. ("At the beginning of the story" can be used to refer to both the first few sentences and to the first chapter or chapters. "At the beginning of the trail" can be used to refer to both the first few meters and the first part of a trail, which can be quite substantial, even a fifth or fourth or more.)

The originally rare and traditionally deprecated usage of "in the beginning of" (instead of "at the beginning of") has become more common but is still ignored by most dictionaries and other authorities or labeled as unidiomatic or incorrect. Interestingly, there is only rarely confusion between the parallel expressions "in the end" and "at the end (of)".

Synonyms

• (act of doing that which begins anything): commencing, start, starting
• (that which is begun; rudiment or element): element, embryo, rudiment
• (that which begins or originates something): origin, source, start, commencement
• (initial portion of some extended thing): head, start

Antonyms

• (act of doing that which begins anything): conclusion, end

Derived terms

• a good beginning makes a good ending
• beginning of day
• in the beginning

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English begynnyng, bygynnynge, From Old English *beginnende (attested only as Old English onginnende), from Proto-Germanic *biginnandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *biginnan? (“to begin”), equivalent to begin +? -ing.

Verb

beginning

1. present participle of begin

Adjective

beginning (not comparable)

1. (informal) Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.

   in the beginning paragraph of the chapter

   in the beginning section of the course

Translations

Synonyms

• first
• initial