prime
/pɹaɪ̯m/ adjective B2- First in importance, degree, or rank. · Our prime concern here is to keep the community safe.
- First in time, order, or sequence. · Both the English and French governments established prime meridians in their capitals.
- First in excellence, quality, or value. · This is a prime location for a bookstore.
- Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers). · Thirteen is a prime number.
- Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.
- Having its complement closed under multiplication.
- Such that the annihilator of any nonzero submodule is equal to the annihilator of the whole module.
- Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.
Comparative primer · Superlative primest
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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