prime
/pɹaɪ̯m/ noun C2- The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
- The religious service appointed to this hour.
- The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
- The chief or best individual or part.
- Something which is first in importance or rank: a prime defense company, mortgage lender, etc.
- The first note or tone of a musical scale.
- The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
- A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number. · 3 is a prime.
Plural primes
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“Yet,” continued the count, becoming each moment more absorbed in the anticipation of the dreadful sacrifice for the morrow, which Mercédès had accepted, “yet, it is impossible that so noble-minded a woman should thus through selfishness consent to my death when I am in the prime of life and strength; it is impossible that she can carry to such a point maternal love, or rather delirium.
It’s more than the Prime Minister gets.
He was more than six feet high, was in the prime of life, had small feet for his height, wore coarse, square-toed boots and smoked a Trichinopoly cigar.
I have never seen the Prime Minister so upset.
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