Prime

Adjective

 * 1) First in importance, degree, or rank.
 * Our prime concern here is to keep the community safe.
 * 1) First in time, order, or sequence
 * Both the English and French governments established prime meridians in their capitals.
 * 1) First in excellence, quality, or value.
 * This is a prime location for a bookstore.
 * 1)  Having no integral factors except itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
 * Thirteen is a prime number.
 * 1)  Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.
 * 2)  Having its complement closed under multiplication: said only of ideals.

Synonyms

 * greatest, most important, main, primary, principal, top
 * excellent, top quality
 * earliest, first, original
 * indivisible

Noun

 * 1)  One of the daily offices of prayer of the Western Church, associated with the early morning (typically 6 a.m.).
 * 2)  The early morning.
 * 3) * 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vi:
 * They all as glad, as birdes of ioyous Prime […].
 * 1)  The earliest stage of something.
 * 2) The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
 * 3) * 1965, ,
 * Once upon a time you dressed so fine. You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you?
 * 1) The chief or best individual or part.
 * 2)  The first note or tone of a musical scale.
 * 3)  The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
 * 4)  A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.
 * 3 is a prime.
 * 1)  A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.
 * 2)  Six consecutive blocks, which prevent the opponent's pieces from passing.
 * I'm threatening to build a prime here.
 * 1) The symbol: ′

Synonyms

 * bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flower, flush, heyday, peak
 * choice, prize, quality, select
 * prime number (when an integer)

Verb

 * 1)  To prepare a mechanism for its main work.
 * You'll have to press this button twice to prime the fuel pump.
 * 1)  To apply a coat of primer paint to.
 * I need to prime these handrails before we can apply the finish coat.

Synonyms

 * ground, undercoat

Adjectives for Prime
dancing; dominant; golden; autumnal; refulgent; blooming; young; luxuriant; lusty; early; unvalued.

Thesaurus
Eastertide, Mass, Maytime, abecedarian, aboriginal, acme, admirable, adolescence, adulthood, adultness, advise, age of consent, algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot, all-absorbing, alpha, ancestral, antecedent, antenatal, antepatriarchal, anterior, anticipatory, apply paint, apprise, arch, atavistic, aurora, autochthonous, banner, basic, bedaub, bedizen, bedtime prayer, begild, beginning, besmear, best, break of day, breaking-in, brief, brightening, brush on paint, budding, budtime, butter, calcimine, camp meeting, capital, cardinal, central, champion, chanticleer, charge, chief, choice, chosen, church, church service, ci-devant, coach, coat, cock, cockcrow, cocklight, color, complexion, compline, controlling, cover, crack of dawn, cram, cram with facts, cream, creative, crowning, dab, dandy, daub, dawn, dawning, day-peep, daybreak, daylight, dayspring, decimal, deep-dye, detonate, devotions, differential, digital, dip, discharge, distemper, divine service, dominant, double-dye, drill, driving age, drop, duty, dye, earlier, earliest, early, educate, eject, elder, elect, elemental, elementary, elite, emblazon, embryonic, enamel, engild, even, evening devotions, evensong, excellent, exceptional, excite, exercises, exponential, extraordinary, face, famous, fast-dye, fat, fell, fetal, figural, figurate, figurative, fine, finite, fire, fire off, first, first blush, first brightening, first glance, first impression, first inning, first lap, first move, first round, first sight, first stage, first step, first-class, first-rate, first-string, flower, flower of age, focal, for the best, fore, foregoing, forehand, foremost, formative, former, forward, foundational, fractional, fresco, front, frontal, full age, full bloom, full growth, fullgrownness, fundamental, galvanize, gambit, gestatory, get ready, get up steam, gild, glaze, gloss, grain, great, greatest, greenness, grown-upness, gun, gun for, handpicked, head, headmost, hegemonic, heyday, highest, hit, hue, humanoid, illuminate, imaginary, imbue, impair, impossible, in embryo, in its infancy, in the bud, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incunabular, infant, infantile, infinite, inform, ingrain, initial, initiative, initiatory, instruct, integral, introductory, inventive, irrational, japan, juvenility, lacquer, lauds, lay on, lay on color, le premier pas, leading, legal age, legalis homo, let fly, let off, light, liturgy, load, logarithmic, logometric, magisterial, maiden, main, majority, make ready, manhood, manlihood, master, matchless, matins, mature age, maturity, meeting, morn, morning devotions, motivate, move, nascent, natal, negative, night song, none, nones, nonesuch, nonpareil, noteworthy, notify, novena, numeral, numerary, numerative, numeric, odd, office, older, opening move, optimal, optimum, ordinal, original, outstanding, overriding, overruling, paint, pair, paragon, paramount, parget, parturient, patriarchal, peak, peep of day, peerless, pelt, pepper, pick, pick off, picked, pigment, pinnacle, pioneer, pique, pistol, plug, positive, possible, postnatal, pot, potshoot, potshot, praise meeting, prayer, prayer meeting, prayers, preadamite, preceding, precurrent, predominant, preeminent, preexistent, preglacial, pregnant, prehistoric, prehuman, premier, prenatal, prepare, preponderant, prevailing, previous, pride, primal, primary, primavera, prime of life, prime song, primeval, primitive, primitiveness, primitivity, primogenial, primoprimitive, primordial, principal, prior, pristine, prize, procreative, protohistoric, protohuman, puberty, pubescence, public worship, queen, quicken, quintessence, quintessential, radical, ranking, rational, real, reciprocal, revival, revival meeting, riddle, ripe age, riper years, rudimental, rudimentary, ruling, seedtime, select, senior, service, set, sext, shade, shadow, shellac, shoot, shoot at, shoot down, slap on, slather, slop on paint, smear, smear on, snipe, sovereign, spread on, spread with, spring, springtide, springtime, stain, star, steam up, stellar, stimulate, stipple, strike, stuff with knowledge, submultiple, sunrise, sunup, supereminent, superior, superlative, supreme, surd, surpassing, take a potshot, tar, teach, tent meeting, the best, the best ever, the tops, the very best, tierce, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, toga virilis, tone, top, topflight, torpedo, train, transcendental, tutor, undercoat, underived, undersong, unmatchable, unmatched, unparalleled, unsurpassed, uppermost, ur, varnish, very best, vesper, vespers, vestibule of Day, vigils, virility, warm up, warming-up, wash, watch meeting, watch night, watch-night service, whitewash, wind, wind up, womanhood, womanlihood, worthy, years of discretion, youth, youthfulness, zenith

Etymology 1
From prime:, from  primus:, from  pri:, from.

Etymology 2
Origin uncertain; perhaps related to primage.

Adjective

 * Chinese: 首
 * Danish: første, tidligste
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ensimmäinen, ensi-, alku-, primaarinen
 * Irish:
 * Old Irish: ,


 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 最初の
 * Polish: pierwszy, pierwsza , pierwsze
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Swedish: ,


 * Arabic: (mumtāz),  (fākhir)
 * Danish: førsteklasses
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: de premier ordre, excellent
 * Hebrew: מצויין


 * Italian: ottimo, (meat, cuts) di prima scelta, (foodstuffs) di prima qualità, (livestock) di prima categoria
 * Japanese: 最良の
 * Polish: pierwszy, pierwsza , pierwsze
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish: förstklassig, prima


 * Catalan:
 * Danish: primtal-
 * Dutch: priem
 * Estonian: algarv
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: ראשוני
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian: primo
 * Japanese: 素な
 * Polish: pierwsza (liczba)
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: простой (prostoj), -e
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: prim-


 * Chinese: 首
 * Danish: primær, hoved-, vigtigste
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Hebrew:
 * Irish:
 * Old Irish: ,
 * Italian: principale, (importance) primario


 * Japanese: 最重要な
 * Polish: pierwszy, pierwsza , pierwsze
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Swedish: främst, förnämst, huvud-, viktigast


 * Japanese: 素な


 * : κύριος [ˈkiriˌo̞s], πρωταρχικός [pro̞ˌtarçiˈko̞s] , πρώτος [ˈpro̞to̞s]
 * : άριστος [ˈariˌsto̞s], εκλεκτός [ˌe̞kle̞ˈkto̞s] , πρώτος [ˈpro̞to̞s]
 * : αρχικός [ˌarçiˈko̞s], πρωταρχικός [pro̞ˌtarçiˈko̞s] , πρώτος [ˈpro̞to̞s]
 * : πρώτος [ˈpro̞to̞s]

Noun

 * Danish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, 初期, 原始


 * Old English:
 * Swedish:


 * Danish: blomstringstid
 * Italian: (professionally) all’apice; (physically) nel fiore degli anni


 * Japanese: 最盛期
 * Swedish: blomstringstid, glansdagar , glansperiod


 * Swedish: utvald


 * Czech:
 * Dutch: priem
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 主音
 * Swedish:


 * Swedish:


 * Czech: prvočíslo (when an integer)
 * Danish: primtal (when an integer)
 * Dutch: priemgetal (when an integer)
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hungarian: ,


 * Italian: numero primo
 * Japanese:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: primtal (when an integer)


 * Czech:


 * Chinese (character) (Old Chinese? Middle Chinese? Mandarin?): 卯 (in sense “early morning”)
 * : πρώτος [ˈpro̞to̞s]

Verb

 * Danish: klargøre
 * French:
 * Italian: preparare;  innescare;  caricare;  adescare


 * Japanese: 準備をする;  導火線を付ける;  火薬を詰める;  呼び水を差す
 * Russian: готовить к работе
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * Galician: imprimar
 * German: grundieren
 * Italian: dare una vernice di fondo su


 * Japanese: 下塗りをする, 地塗りをする
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: grunda, grundmåla


 * : zenbaki
 * : Просты (prost'i lik)
 * : Просто (prosto shislo)
 * : 素
 * : unesma, prima (4)
 * : prima
 * : 소 (so)
 * Latin Primus
 * : pirmini, -ai
 * : prim
 * : primu
 * : prvočís
 * : primo
 * : asal?

Derived terms

 * primer

Related terms

 * primal
 * primary
 * primate
 * Primates
 * primy

Noun

 * 1) reward; prize; bonus

Anagrams

 * imper

Ordinal number

 * 1) first

Anagrams

 * premi

Adjective
prime