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Definitions and meaning of premier

premier

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French premier (adjective), from Latin prīmārius. Doublet of primary.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɛ.mi.ɛː/, /ˈpɹɛm.jɛː/, /ˈpɹɛ.mi.ə/, /ˈpɹɛm.jə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈmɪəɹ/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹimjɚ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹemjə/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Adjective

premier (not comparable)

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.
2. (heraldry) Most ancient; first to hold a specified status.

Derived terms

• premier danseur

Translations

See also

• preeminent, primary, prime

Noun

premier (plural premiers)

1. (politics, UK, Westminster system) The head of government in parliament and leader of the cabinet.
   1. (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.

   2. (politics, Australia, Canada, South Africa) The leader of a state or provincial government and cabinet.
2. (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.
3. (nautical, slang) The first lieutenant or other second-in-command officer of a ship.
4. (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

Derived terms

• minor premier

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)

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.
2. To govern in the role of premier.

Anagrams

• reprime

Dutch

Etymology

Shortening of French premier ministre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prəˈmjeː/
• Hyphenation: pre‧mier
• Rhymes: -eː

Noun

premier m (plural premiers, diminutive premiertje n)

1. prime minister

   Synonym: minister-president

Derived terms

• premierbonus
• premierschap

French

Alternative forms

• (abbreviation, in general) 1^er m, 1^re or 1^ère f
• I (abbreviation, after names)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French premier, from Old French premier, from Latin prīmārius. Doublet of primaire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁə.mje/, (in liaison) /pʁə.mje.ʁ‿/

Adjective

premier (feminine première, masculine plural premiers, feminine plural premières)

1. (ordinal number) first

2. prime (number etc)

Derived terms

Noun

premier m (plural premiers, feminine première)

1. first

2. premier
3. prime minister

Descendants

• → Brazilian Portuguese: premiê, premier (unadapted form)

Adverb

premier

1. first

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• empirer, réprime, réprimé

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• prömier (nonstandard)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈprɛmijɛr]
• Hyphenation: pre‧mi‧er
• Rhymes: -ɛr

Noun

premier (plural premierek)

1. 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 értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English premier, itself a borrowing from French premier, ultimately from Classical Latin prīmārius. Doublet of primaio, primiero, and primario.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈprɛ.mjer/
• Rhymes: -ɛmjer
• Hyphenation: prè‧mier

Noun

premier m or f by sense (invariable)

1. premier, prime minister (or similar title)

Derived terms

• vicepremier

Anagrams

• reprime

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French premier, from Latin primarius.

Pronunciation

Adjective

premier m (feminine singular premiere, masculine plural premiers, feminine plural premieres)

1. first (ordinal number)

Descendants

• French: premier

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

premier m

1. indefinite plural of premie

Old French

Alternative forms

• premer, primer, primur

Etymology

From Latin prīmārius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prəˈmi͜ɛɾ/

Adjective

premier m (oblique and nominative feminine singular premiere)

1. first

Declension

Derived terms

• premierement

Adverb

premier

1. first

Noun

premier oblique singular, m (oblique plural premiers, nominative singular premiers, nominative plural premier)

1. first

2. beginning; start

Descendants

• Middle French: premier
  • French: premier
  • → English: premier
• Norman: preunmyi

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈprɛ.mjɛr/
• Rhymes: -ɛmjɛr
• Syllabification: pre‧mier

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French premier/premier ministre. First attested in the 19th century. Compare Kashubian premiér／premiéra and Silesian prymier.

Noun

premier m pers (female equivalent premier or premierka, related adjective premierowski)

1. (government) prime minister (chief member of the cabinet and head of the government, especially in a parliamentary democracy; often the leader of the majority party)
   1. (government) Prime Minister of Poland (head of the cabinet and the head of government of Poland)

      Synonym: prezes Rady Ministrów

Declension

Noun

premier f (indeclinable, male equivalent premier)

1. (government) female equivalent of premier (“prime minister”) (chief member of the cabinet and head of the government, especially in a parliamentary democracy; often the leader of the majority party)

Derived terms

Alternative forms

• premjer (Pre-reform orthography (1936))

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), premier is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 0 times in scientific texts, 60 times in news, 8 times in essays, 1 time in fiction, and 6 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 75 times, making it the 861st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

premier f

1. genitive plural of premiera

References

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French premier.

Noun

premier m (plural premieri)

1. prime minister

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French premier (literally “first”).

Noun

premier m or f by sense (plural premieres)

1. premier (head of government)

Swedish

Noun

premier

1. indefinite plural of premie

Tatar

Noun

premier

1. Latin spelling of премьер (prem’yer)

Source: wiktionary.org