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Premier   /prɛmˈɪr/  /primˈɪr/   Listen
adjective
Premier  adj.  
1.
First; chief; principal; as, the premier place; premier minister.
2.
Most ancient; said of the peer bearing the oldest title of his degree.


noun
Premier  n.  The first minister of state; the prime minister.





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"Premier" Quotes from Famous Books



... the giants at Marignan, or after Pavia during the captivity of the roi-gentilhomme; everywhere where country and religion appealed to their defenders one was sure of hearing shouted in the foremost ranks the motto of the Montmorencys: "Dieu ayde au premier baron chretien!" ...
— The Makers of Canada: Bishop Laval • A. Leblond de Brumath
... Russell succeeded Sir Robert Peel as premier. At the General Election, a brother of mine was the Liberal candidate for the seat in East Norfolk. He was returned; but was threatened with defeat through an occurrence in which ...
— Tracks of a Rolling Stone • Henry J. Coke
... the closest possible study to the game. I felt that when he came to play for our Championship he would make a very bold bid for it. When I heard that he was going to Sandwich last year, I made him my "tip" for premier honours, and before the first round was played I said to many friends, "Mark my words; if Travis gets anything like a fairly easy draw to start with he will go right through." And so he did. I saw ...
— The Complete Golfer [1905] • Harry Vardon
... withdraw them from the disgusting persecutions and temptations of the neighbouring secular clergy; how he settled himself on the still famous Monte Cassino, which looks down upon the Gulf of Gaeta, and founded there the "Archi- Monasterium of Europe," whose abbot was in due time first premier baron of the kingdom of Naples,—which counted among its dependencies {245} four bishoprics, two principalities, twenty earldoms, two hundred and fifty castles, four hundred and forty towns or villages, three hundred and thirty-six manors, ...
— The Hermits • Charles Kingsley
... the text of the statement read by Premier Asquith in the House of Commons today and communicated at the same time to the neutral powers in their capitals as an outline of the Allies' policy of retaliation against Germany for ...
— New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various


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