Definitions for prime

• Definition
• Anagrams (71)

prime prime

Spelling: [prahym]

IPA: /praɪm/

Prime is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in prime (eimpr).

Definitions for prime

noun

1. the most flourishing stage or state.
2. the time of early manhood or womanhood:
3. the period or state of greatest perfection or vigor of human life:
4. the choicest or best part of anything.
5. (especially in the grading of U.S. beef) a grade, classification, or designation indicating the highest or most desirable quality.
6. the beginning or earliest stage of any period.
7. the spring of the year.
8. the first hour or period of the day, after sunrise.
9. Banking. prime rate.
10. Ecclesiastical. the second of the seven canonical hours or the service for it, originally fixed for the first hour of the day.
11. Mathematics. prime number. one of the equal parts into which a unit is primarily divided. the mark (′) indicating such a division:
12. Fencing. the first of eight defensive positions.
13. Music. unison (def 2). (in a scale) the tonic or keynote.
14. Linguistics. any basic, indivisible unit used in linguistic analysis.
15. Metallurgy. a piece of tin plate free from visible defects.

adjective

1. of the first importance; demanding the fullest consideration:
2. of the greatest relevance or significance:
3. of the highest eminence or rank:
4. of the greatest commercial value:
5. first-rate:
6. (of meat, especially of beef) noting or pertaining to the first grade or best quality:
7. first in order of time, existence, or development; earliest; primitive.
8. basic; fundamental:
9. Mathematics. (of any two or more numbers) having no common divisor except unity:

verb (used with object)

1. to prepare or make ready for a particular purpose or operation.
2. to supply (a firearm) with powder for communicating fire to a charge.
3. to lay a train of powder to (a charge, mine, etc.).
4. to pour or admit liquid into (a pump) to expel air and prepare for action.
5. to put fuel into (a carburetor) before starting an engine, in order to insure a sufficiently rich mixture at the start.
6. to cover (a surface) with a preparatory coat or color, as in painting.
7. to supply or equip with information, words, etc., for use:
8. to harvest the bottom leaves from (a tobacco plant).

verb (used without object)

1. (of a boiler) to deliver or discharge steam containing an excessive amount of water.
2. to harvest the bottom leaves from a tobacco plant.

Origin of prime

before 1000; 1910-15 for def 5; (adj.) Middle English (Old French prim) Latin prīmus first (superlative corresponding to prior prior^1<

Examples for prime

The prime Minister sent for Sacco, and they had a talk together.

Look at the case of the "Hyena," as he was called in his prime.

Castro actually flew up to Montreal to be a pallbearer at the 2000 funeral of a beloved Canadian prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau.

He had been suddenly awakened: and he was in the prime of life.

Hamish Marshall himself is a former staffer of prime Minister Harper.

Domestically, the prime minister maintains the dubious line that he is the only man who can keep the still-fragile peace.

The prime necessity was to save her, Mary, from the toils of the law that were closing around her.

A prime example: your “real name” policy, which unfairly targeted the LGBTQ community.

Fuel consumption is a prime factor in the production of engine power.

When they were working together, 35 years ago, she was in her prime and one of the most beautiful women in the world.