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premier
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)
- 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.
- 2004, Philip Moore, Scouting an Anthropology of Sport, Anthropologica, Volume 46, Number 1, Canadian Anthropology Society, page 40,
- (heraldry) Most ancient.
Translations
See also
- preeminent, primary, prime
Noun
premier (plural premiers)
- (politics, Britain, Westminster system) The head of government in parliament and leader of the cabinet.
- (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.
- 1871 July 29, “Our Tyrant”, The Spectator, Volume 303, Issues 9308-9315, page 910,
- (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.
- 1974, Irving M. Abella, On Strike; Six Key Labour Struggles in Canada, 1919-1949, page 96,
- (politics, UK parliament) The prime minister.
- (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.
- 1983, Guo Zhou, China & the World, Volume 4, Beijing Review, page 13,
- (nautical, slang) The first lieutenant or other second-in-command officer of a ship.
- (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)
- 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.
- 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)
- prime minister
- Synonym: minister-president
Derived terms
- premierbonus
- premierschap
French
Alternative forms
- (abbreviation, in general) 1er m, 1re or 1ère 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)
- first
- Le premier élément de la liste est un zéro.
- The first element of the list is zero.
- Le premier élément de la liste est un zéro.
- prime (number etc)
Derived terms
Noun
premier m (plural premiers, feminine première)
- first
- Il est le premier.
- He is the first.
- Il est le premier.
- premier
- prime minister
Adverb
premier
- first
- Il joue premier
- he is playing first
- Il joue premier
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)
- 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)
- 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)
- first (ordinal number)
Descendants
- French: premier
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
premier m
- 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)
- first
Declension
Derived terms
- premierement
Adverb
premier
- first
Noun
premier m (oblique plural premiers, nominative singular premiers, nominative plural premier)
- first
- 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
- prime minister
Declension
Noun
premier f
- genitive plural of premiera
Further reading
- premier in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
From French premier.
Noun
premier m (plural premieri)
- prime minister
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from French premier (literally “first”).
Noun
premier m or f (plural premieres)
- premier (head of government)
Swedish
Noun
premier
- indefinite plural of premie
Tatar
Noun
premier
- Latin spelling of ??????? (prem’yer)
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eldest
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??ld?st/
- Hyphenation: eld?est
Adjective
eldest
- superlative form of old: most old; greatest in age or seniority.
- eldest son
Usage notes
The normal superlative of old is oldest. The irregular form eldest is sometimes used with family members, but it is otherwise rare.
Synonyms
- oldest
Translations
Adjective
eldest (not comparable)
- (card games) (of a player) Receiving cards from the dealer first, before any other players.
- (card games) (of a hand) Having higher, or superior cards.
- 2003, Thunder Bay Press, The Card Game Set
- Each player draws a card, and the lowest becomes eldest hand.
- 2003, Thunder Bay Press, The Card Game Set
Noun
eldest (plural eldests)
- The eldest child in a family, or individual in a group.
Anagrams
- Ledets, steeld
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
eldest
- inflection of eldast:
- present tense
- past tense
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