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Meanings of Prime:

adjective

Of first importance; main.

Usage examples:

A nurse's prime concern is the well-being of the patient

noun

The state or time of greatest vigour or success in a person's life.

Usage examples:

You're in the prime of life

verb

Make (something) ready for use or action.

Usage examples:

He grabbed a gun from a nearby wall and primed it

Meanings of Prime-minister:

noun

The leader of the government in some countries

Meanings of Prime-of-life:

idiom

In the best, most successful, most productive stage

Usage examples:

The horse retired from racing while still in his prime., she was in the prime of her working life w…

Meanings of Primed:

verb

Make (something) ready for use or action.

Usage examples:

He grabbed a gun from a nearby wall and primed it

adjective

Of first importance; main.

Usage examples:

A nurse's prime concern is the well-being of the patient

noun

The state or time of greatest vigour or success in a person's life.

Usage examples:

You're in the prime of life

Meanings of Primely:

adverb

In the first place, in the highest degree; firstly, primarily, originally.

Meanings of Primeros:

noun

A gambling game, fashionable in the 16th and 17th centuries, in which each player was dealt four cards from a forty-card pack, and players bet on the combinations of the cards they were dealt. compare prima vista , "prime".

Meanings of Primes:

noun

The state or time of greatest vigour or success in a person's life.

Usage examples:

You're in the prime of life

verb

Make (something) ready for use or action.

Usage examples:

He grabbed a gun from a nearby wall and primed it

adjective

Of first importance; main.

Usage examples:

A nurse's prime concern is the well-being of the patient

Meanings of Primeur:

noun

Fruit or vegetables grown to be available very early in the season.

Usage examples:

Our may recipes have been deliberately planned for the best of spring's primeurs

Meanings of Primeval:

adjective

Of the earliest time in history.

Usage examples:

Mile after mile of primeval forest

Meanings of Primigenous:

adjective

= primigenial .

Meanings of Priming:

noun

A substance that prepares something for use or action.

Usage examples:

He checked the priming of his gun

verb

Make (something) ready for use or action.

Meanings of Primiparae:

noun

A woman who is giving birth for the first time.

Usage examples:

We restricted the analysis to primiparae (73.5% of whom reported no previous pregnancies) because d…

Meanings of Primiparity:

noun

The condition of being primiparous.

Meanings of Primiparous:

adjective

Producing a child or young animal for the first time, or having produced only one child or young animal

Usage examples:

The sample consisted of children of primiparous mothers recruited while receiving prenatal care., t…

Meanings of Primipilar:

noun

= primipilus .

Meanings of Primitive:

adjective

Relating to, denoting, or preserving the character of an early stage in the evolutionary or historical development of something.

Usage examples:

Primitive mammals

noun

A person belonging to a preliterate, non-industrial society.

Usage examples:

Reports of travellers and missionaries described contemporary primitives

Meanings of Primitives:

noun

A person belonging to a preliterate, non-industrial society.

Usage examples:

Reports of travellers and missionaries described contemporary primitives

adjective

Relating to, denoting, or preserving the character of an early stage in the evolutionary or historical development of something.

Usage examples:

Primitive mammals

Meanings of Primitivistic:

adjective

Primitivist.

Meanings of Primmed:

verb

Purse (the mouth or lips) into a prim expression.

Usage examples:

Laurie primmed up his mouth

adjective

Feeling or showing disapproval of anything regarded as improper; stiffly correct.

Usage examples:

A very prim and proper lady

Meanings of Primmest:

adjective

Feeling or showing disapproval of anything regarded as improper; stiffly correct.

Usage examples:

A very prim and proper lady

verb

Purse (the mouth or lips) into a prim expression.

Usage examples:

Laurie primmed up his mouth

Superlative of prim disapproving

Meanings of Primming:

verb

Purse (the mouth or lips) into a prim expression.

Usage examples:

Laurie primmed up his mouth

adjective

Feeling or showing disapproval of anything regarded as improper; stiffly correct.

Usage examples:

A very prim and proper lady

Meanings of Primo:

noun

The leading or upper part in a duet.

Usage examples:

I couldn't resist recording the secondo on my disklavier and playing the primo along with it.

adjective

Of top quality or importance.

Usage examples:

The primo team in the land

Meanings of Primogenitive:

adjective

Primogenital.

Meanings of Primogenitors:

noun

An ancestor, especially the earliest ancestor of a people; a progenitor.

Usage examples:

The primogenitor of countless domesticated breeds is the red junglefowl of southern asia.

Meanings of Primordial:

adjective

Existing at or from the beginning of time; primeval.

Usage examples:

The primordial oceans