premier
/pɹɪˈmɪəɹ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.56 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The head of government in parliament and leader of the cabinet.
Australian usage; Canadian usage; British usage
noun
The government leader in a legislative congress or leader of a government-level administrative body; the head of government.
noun
The champion team of a particular season (especially as used in Australian rules football).
Australian usage
verb
To perform, display or exhibit for the first time.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "South Africa′s golfing greats battle it out on one of the country′s premier courses."
- "PREMIER, a. This French word, which signifies first, is used by English Heralds to signify the most ancient Peer of any Degree by Creation; as Premier Baron, &c."
- "[…]dau. of Lord Forbes, Premier Baron of Scotland (the Cumine family were of very ancient date[…])"
- ""THE PREMIER DUKES OF FRANCE. " It will be seen from the autograph appended [...] He was the first to arrive, but it was to his coachman that he owed it that he became the premier Duke of France."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: premier, prīmārius
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /pɹɪˈmɪəɹ/
- British English: /ˈpɹɛm.iː.ə/