PRIMARY meaning: First or most significant in order

We found 44 dictionaries that define the word primary:

General (25 matching dictionaries)

primary: Merriam-Webster.com
Primary, primary, the Primary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
primary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
primary: Collins English Dictionary
primary: Wiktionary
primary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
primary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
primary: Infoplease Dictionary
primary: Dictionary.com
primary: Online Etymology Dictionary
primary: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Primary (LDS Church), Primary (astronomy), Primary (band), Primary (chemistry), Primary (disambiguation), Primary (election), Primary (film), Primary (musician), Primary (song), Primary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Primary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
primary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
primary: Rhymezone
primary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
primary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
primary: Free Dictionary
primary: Mnemonic Dictionary
primary, the Primary: Dictionary/thesaurus
Primary, primary: Wordnik
primary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
primary: Vocabulary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)

Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
primary, the Primary: Legal dictionary
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)

primary, the Primary: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)

Primary: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
primary: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
primary, the Primary: Medical dictionary
Primary: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)

Bird On! (No longer online)
Primary: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
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PRIMARY: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

primary: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)

primary: Electronics
AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  First or earliest in a group or series.
▸ adjective:  Main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others.
▸ adjective:  (geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.
▸ adjective:  (chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
▸ adjective:  (medicine) Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
▸ adjective:  (medicine) Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.
▸ noun:  (political science) A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.
▸ noun:  The first year of grade school.
▸ noun:  A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
▸ noun:  The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites.
▸ noun:  A primary school.
▸ noun:  (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
▸ noun:  A primary colour.
▸ noun:  (military) The first stage of a thermonuclear weapon, which sets off a fission explosion to help trigger a fusion reaction in the weapon's secondary stage.
▸ noun:  (aviation) A radar return from an aircraft (or other object) produced solely by the reflection of the radar beam from the aircraft's skin, without additional information from the aircraft's transponder.
▸ noun:  (medicine) The primary site of a disease; the original location or source of the disease.
▸ noun:  (electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary.
▸ verb:  (US, politics, transitive, intransitive) To challenge (an incumbent sitting politician) for their political party's nomination to run for re-election, through running a challenger campaign in a primary election, especially one that is more ideologically extreme.
▸ verb:  (US, intransitive, transitive) To take part in a primary election.

Opposite:

secondary, ancillary, auxiliary, subordinate, peripheral

Types:

open, closed, semi-open, semi-closed, more...

Phrases:

the primary, primary school, primary care, primary education, primary schools, more...

Adjectives:

democratic, direct, presidential, first, republican, white, second, gubernatorial, open, national, unknown

Colors:

red, blue, yellow, green, orange, more...

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