noun A mammal of the order Primates, comprising of apes (including humans), monkeys, lemurs, tarsiers, lorisids, and galagos.
Primates range from lemurs to gorillas.
noun An anthropoid; ape including human.
noun In the Catholic Church, a rare title conferred to or claimed by the sees of certain archbishops, or the highest-ranking bishop of a present or historical, usually political circumscription.
The Archbishop of Quebec is the primate of Canada.
noun In the Orthodox Church, the presiding bishop of an ecclesiastical jurisdiction or region. Usually, the expression primate refers to the first hierarch of an autocephalous or autonomous Orthodox church. Less often, it is used to refer to the ruling bishop of an archdiocese or diocese.
noun In the Anglican Church, an archbishop, or the highest-ranking bishop of an ecclesiastic province.