EGAVE

primary

Academic Word List, sublist 2.

About 86.64 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective First or earliest in a group or series.
    Children attend primary school, and teenagers attend secondary school.
  2. adjective Main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others.
  3. adjective Earliest formed; fundamental.
  4. adjective Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
  5. adjective Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
  6. adjective Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.
  7. noun A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party, or the first round of a two-round election.
  8. noun The first year of grade school.

Similar words

principal original main important elementary basic basal primitive essential particular

Often followed by

and school care schools education purpose source sources concern or

Word family

primaried primaries primarily primary coil primarying

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