Etymology

Borrowed from Middle FrenchCategory:English terms borrowed from Middle French#PREMIERCategory:English terms derived from Middle French#PREMIER premier (adjective), from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#PREMIER prīmārius. Doublet of primaryCategory:English doublets#PREMIER.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɛ.mi.ɛː/, /ˈpɹɛm.jɛː/, /ˈpɹɛ.mi.ə/, /ˈpɹɛm.jə/Category:English 3-syllable words#PREMIERCategory:English 2-syllable words#PREMIERCategory:English 3-syllable words#PREMIERCategory:English 2-syllable words#PREMIERCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PREMIER
• (US) IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈmɪəɹ/Category:English 2-syllable words#PREMIERCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PREMIER
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹimjɚ/Category:English 2-syllable words#PREMIERCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PREMIER
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹemjə/Category:English 2-syllable words#PREMIERCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PREMIER

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• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)Category:Rhymes:English/ɪə(ɹ)#PREMIERCategory:Rhymes:English/ɪə(ɹ)/2 syllables#PREMIER

Adjective

premier (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#PREMIERCategory:English adjectives#PREMIERCategory:English uncomparable adjectives#PREMIERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PREMIERCategory:Pages with entries#PREMIERCategory:Pages with 14 entries#PREMIER

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.

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2. (heraldryCategory:en:Heraldry#PREMIER) Most ancient; first to hold a specified status.
   • [1777, Antoine Pyron du Marte, Mr. Porny, The Elements of Heraldry:

     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.]

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   • 1882, Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, page 1390:

     […] dau. of Lord Forbes, Premier Baron of Scotland (the Cumine family were of very ancient date […])

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   • 1890, William Thomas Stead, The Review of Reviews, page 327:

     "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.

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Noun

premier (plural premiers)Category:English lemmas#PREMIERCategory:English nouns#PREMIERCategory:English countable nouns#PREMIERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PREMIERCategory:Pages with entries#PREMIERCategory:Pages with 14 entries#PREMIER

English Wikipedia has an article on:

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Wikipedia

1. (politicsCategory:en:Politics#PREMIER, UKCategory:British English#PREMIER, Westminster system) The head of government in parliament and leader of the cabinet.
   1. (politicsCategory:en:Politics#PREMIER, 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. (politicsCategory:en:Politics#PREMIER, AustraliaCategory:Australian English#PREMIER, CanadaCategory:Canadian English#PREMIER, South AfricaCategory:South African English#PREMIER) 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.

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      • 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.

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      • 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.

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      • 2009, Andrew Stewart, edited by John Spoehr, 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.

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      • 2011, Jennifer Curtin, Marian Sawer, “4: Oceania”, in 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.

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2. (politicsCategory:en:Politics#PREMIER, 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.

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   • 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.

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3. (nauticalCategory:en:Nautical#PREMIER, slangCategory:English slang#PREMIER) The first lieutenant or other second-in-command officer of a ship.
4. (AustraliaCategory:Australian English#PREMIER, sporting) The champion team of a particular season (especially as used in Australian rules football).

Verb

premier (third-person singular simple present premiers, present participle premiering, simple past and past participle premiered)Category:English lemmas#PREMIERCategory:English verbs#PREMIERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PREMIERCategory:Pages with entries#PREMIERCategory:Pages with 14 entries#PREMIER

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.Category:English terms with usage examples#PREMIER

   • 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.

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   • 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.

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   • 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.

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2. To govern in the role of premier.

Anagrams

• reprime

Alternative forms

• (eye dialect) prumjee

Etymology

Shortening of FrenchCategory:Dutch terms borrowed from French#PREMIERCategory:Dutch terms derived from French#PREMIER premier ministre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prəˈmjeː/Category:Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation#PREMIER

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• Hyphenation: pre‧mier
• Rhymes: -eːCategory:Rhymes:Dutch/eː#PREMIER

Noun

premier m (plural premiers, diminutive premiertje n)Category:Dutch lemmas#PREMIERCategory:Dutch nouns#PREMIERCategory:Dutch nouns with plural in -s#PREMIERCategory:Dutch nouns with red links in their headword lines#PREMIERCategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#PREMIERCategory:Dutch masculine nouns#PREMIERCategory:Pages with entries#PREMIERCategory:Pages with 14 entries#PREMIER

1. Category:nl:Politics#PREMIERprime minister

   Synonym: minister-president

Alternative forms

• 1^er (abbreviation, in general)
• I^er (abbreviation, after names)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle FrenchCategory:French terms inherited from Middle French#PREMIERCategory:French terms derived from Middle French#PREMIER premier, from Old FrenchCategory:French terms inherited from Old French#PREMIERCategory:French terms derived from Old French#PREMIER premier, from LatinCategory:French terms inherited from Latin#PREMIERCategory:French terms derived from Latin#PREMIER prīmārius. Doublet of primaireCategory:French doublets#PREMIER.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁə.mje/, (in liaison) /pʁə.mje.ʁ‿/Category:French 2-syllable words#PREMIERCategory:French terms with IPA pronunciation#PREMIER

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Adjective

premier (feminine première, masculine plural premiers, feminine plural premières)Category:French lemmas#PREMIERCategory:French adjectives#PREMIERCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#PREMIERCategory:Pages with entries#PREMIERCategory:Pages with 14 entries#PREMIER

1. (ordinal numberCategory:French ordinal numbers#PREMIER) first

   Le premier élément de la liste est un zéro.

   The first element of the list is zero.

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2. prime (number etc)

Noun

premier m (plural premiers, feminine première)Category:French lemmas#PREMIERCategory:French nouns#PREMIERCategory:French countable nouns#PREMIERCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#PREMIERCategory:French masculine nouns#PREMIERCategory:Pages with entries#PREMIERCategory:Pages with 14 entries#PREMIER

1. first

   Il est le premier.

   He is the first.

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2. premier
3. prime minister

Adverb

premierCategory:French lemmas#PREMIERCategory:French adverbs#PREMIERCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#PREMIERCategory:Pages with entries#PREMIERCategory:Pages with 14 entries#PREMIER

1. first

   Il joue premier

   he is playing first

   Category:French terms with usage examples#PREMIER

Further reading

• “premier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• empirer, réprime, réprimé

Alternative forms

• prömier (nonstandard)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈprɛmijɛr]Category:Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation#PREMIER
• Hyphenation: pre‧mi‧er
• Rhymes: -ɛrCategory:Rhymes:Hungarian/ɛr#PREMIERCategory:Rhymes:Hungarian/ɛr/3 syllables#PREMIER

Noun

premier (plural premierek)Category:Hungarian lemmas#PREMIERCategory:Hungarian nouns#PREMIERCategory:Hungarian entries with incorrect language header#PREMIERCategory:Pages with entries#PREMIERCategory:Pages with 14 entries#PREMIER

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

Further reading

• premier in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Etymology

Borrowed from EnglishCategory:Indonesian terms borrowed from English#PREMIERCategory:Indonesian terms derived from English#PREMIER premiere, première, from FrenchCategory:Indonesian terms derived from French#PREMIER première. Doublet of premièreCategory:Indonesian doublets#PREMIER.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /preˈmi.ɛr/, [preˈmi.ɛr]Category:Indonesian 3-syllable words#PREMIERCategory:Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation#PREMIER
• Rhymes: -ɛrCategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/ɛr#PREMIERCategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/ɛr/2 syllables#PREMIER
• Hyphenation: pre‧mi‧er

Noun

premier (plural premier-premier)Category:Indonesian lemmas#PREMIERCategory:Indonesian nouns#PREMIERCategory:Indonesian entries with incorrect language header#PREMIERCategory:Pages with entries#PREMIERCategory:Pages with 14 entries#PREMIER

1. premiere, première

Further reading

• “premier”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Etymology

Borrowed from EnglishCategory:Italian terms borrowed from English#PREMIERCategory:Italian terms derived from English#PREMIER premier, itself a borrowing from FrenchCategory:Italian terms derived from French#PREMIER premier, ultimately from Classical LatinCategory:Italian terms derived from Classical Latin#PREMIER prīmārius. Doublet of primaio, primiero, and primarioCategory:Italian doublets#PREMIER.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈprɛ.mjer/Category:Italian 2-syllable words#PREMIERCategory:Italian terms with IPA pronunciation#PREMIER
• Rhymes: -ɛmjerCategory:Rhymes:Italian/ɛmjer#PREMIERCategory:Rhymes:Italian/ɛmjer/2 syllables#PREMIER
• Hyphenation: prè‧mier

Noun

premier m or f by sense (invariable)Category:Italian lemmas#PREMIERCategory:Italian nouns#PREMIERCategory:Italian countable nouns#PREMIERCategory:Italian indeclinable nouns#PREMIERCategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#PREMIERCategory:Italian masculine and feminine nouns by sense#PREMIERCategory:Italian masculine nouns#PREMIERCategory:Italian feminine nouns#PREMIERCategory:Italian nouns with multiple genders#PREMIERCategory:Pages with entries#PREMIERCategory:Pages with 14 entries#PREMIER

1. premier, prime minister (or similar title)

Anagrams

• reprime

Etymology

From Old FrenchCategory:Middle French terms inherited from Old French#PREMIERCategory:Middle French terms derived from Old French#PREMIER premier, from LatinCategory:Middle French terms inherited from Latin#PREMIERCategory:Middle French terms derived from Latin#PREMIER primarius.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

premier m (feminine singular premiere, masculine plural premiers, feminine plural premieres)Category:Middle French lemmas#PREMIERCategory:Middle French adjectives#PREMIERCategory:Middle French entries with incorrect language header#PREMIERCategory:Pages with entries#PREMIERCategory:Pages with 14 entries#PREMIER

1. Category:Middle French ordinal numbers#PREMIERfirst (ordinal number)

Noun

premier mCategory:Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms#PREMIERCategory:Norwegian Bokmål noun forms#PREMIERCategory:Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header#PREMIERCategory:Pages with entries#PREMIERCategory:Pages with 14 entries#PREMIER

1. indefinite plural of premie

Alternative forms

• premer, primer, primur

Etymology

From LatinCategory:Old French terms inherited from Latin#PREMIERCategory:Old French terms derived from Latin#PREMIER prīmārius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prəˈmi͜ɛɾ/Category:Old French terms with IPA pronunciation#PREMIER

Adjective

premier m (oblique and nominative feminine singular premiere)Category:Old French lemmas#PREMIERCategory:Old French adjectives#PREMIERCategory:Old French entries with incorrect language header#PREMIERCategory:Pages with entries#PREMIERCategory:Pages with 14 entries#PREMIER

1. first

Adverb

premierCategory:Old French lemmas#PREMIERCategory:Old French adverbs#PREMIERCategory:Old French entries with incorrect language header#PREMIERCategory:Pages with entries#PREMIERCategory:Pages with 14 entries#PREMIER

1. first

Noun

premier oblique singular, m (oblique plural premiers, nominative singular premiers, nominative plural premier)Category:Old French lemmas#PREMIERCategory:Old French nouns#PREMIERCategory:Old French masculine nouns#PREMIERCategory:Old French entries with incorrect language header#PREMIERCategory:Old French masculine nouns#PREMIERCategory:Pages with entries#PREMIERCategory:Pages with 14 entries#PREMIER

1. first

   saver ke le tenant fut le primer ke entra

   to know that the tenant was the first who entered

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2. beginning; start

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈprɛ.mjɛr/Category:Polish 2-syllable words#PREMIERCategory:Polish terms with IPA pronunciation#PREMIER

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• Rhymes: -ɛmjɛrCategory:Rhymes:Polish/ɛmjɛr#PREMIERCategory:Rhymes:Polish/ɛmjɛr/2 syllables#PREMIER
• Syllabification: pre‧mier

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French premier.^[1][2][3] First attested in the 19th century.^[4]Category:Polish terms derived from French#PREMIERCategory:Polish terms derived from Old French#PREMIERCategory:Polish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (before)#PREMIERCategory:Polish terms derived from Middle French#PREMIERCategory:Polish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *preh₂-#PREMIERCategory:Polish terms derived from Latin#PREMIERCategory:Polish terms borrowed from French#PREMIERCategory:Polish terms derived from Proto-Italic#PREMIERCategory:Polish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#PREMIERCategory:Pages with etymology trees#PREMIERCategory:Polish entries with etymology trees#PREMIERCategory:Polish entries with etymology texts#PREMIERCategory:Pages using etymon with no ID#PREMIER Compare Kashubian premiér / premiéra and Silesian prymier.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

References

Further reading

• “premier”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “premier”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎ (in Polish)
• premier in PWN's encyclopedia
• premier in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Etymology

Borrowed from FrenchCategory:Romanian terms borrowed from French#PREMIERCategory:Romanian terms derived from French#PREMIER premier.

Noun

premier m (plural premieri)Category:Romanian lemmas#PREMIERCategory:Romanian nouns#PREMIERCategory:Romanian nouns with red links in their headword lines#PREMIERCategory:Romanian countable nouns#PREMIERCategory:Romanian entries with incorrect language header#PREMIERCategory:Romanian masculine nouns#PREMIERCategory:Pages with entries#PREMIERCategory:Pages with 14 entries#PREMIER

1. prime minister

Alternative forms

• première

Etymology

Borrowed from FrenchCategory:Spanish terms borrowed from French#PREMIERCategory:Spanish terms derived from French#PREMIER premier (literally “first”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɾeˈmjeɾ/ [pɾeˈmjeɾ]Category:Spanish 2-syllable words#PREMIERCategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#PREMIER
  • Rhymes: -eɾCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/eɾ#PREMIERCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/eɾ/2 syllables#PREMIER
• IPA^(key): /ˈpɾemjeɾ/ [ˈpɾe.mjeɾ]Category:Spanish 2-syllable words#PREMIERCategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#PREMIER
  • Rhymes: -emjeɾCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/emjeɾ#PREMIERCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/emjeɾ/2 syllables#PREMIER
• Syllabification: pre‧mier

Noun

premier m or f by sense (plural premiers or premieres)Category:Spanish lemmas#PREMIERCategory:Spanish nouns#PREMIERCategory:Spanish countable nouns#PREMIERCategory:Spanish nouns with multiple plurals#PREMIERCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#PREMIERCategory:Spanish masculine and feminine nouns by sense#PREMIERCategory:Spanish masculine nouns#PREMIERCategory:Spanish feminine nouns#PREMIERCategory:Spanish nouns with multiple genders#PREMIERCategory:Pages with entries#PREMIERCategory:Pages with 14 entries#PREMIER

1. premier (head of government)

Noun

premierCategory:Swedish non-lemma forms#PREMIERCategory:Swedish noun forms#PREMIERCategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#PREMIERCategory:Pages with entries#PREMIERCategory:Pages with 14 entries#PREMIER

1. indefinite plural of premie

Noun

premierCategory:Tatar lemmas#PREMIERCategory:Tatar nouns#PREMIERCategory:Tatar terms with redundant script codes#PREMIERCategory:Tatar entries with incorrect language header#PREMIERCategory:Pages with entries#PREMIERCategory:Pages with 14 entries#PREMIER

1. Latin spelling of премьер (premʹyır)Category:Tatar terms in Latin script#PREMIER