1. primate(n = noun.person) archpriest, hierarch, high priest, prelate - a senior clergyman and dignitary;
is a kind of priest
has particulars: gloomy dean, inge, william ralph inge, francisco jimenez de cisneros, jimenez de cisneros, cardinal newman, john henry newman, newman, armand jean du plessis, cardinal richelieu, duc de richelieu, richelieu, desmond tutu, tutu, james usher, james ussher, usher, ussher, william of wykeham, wykeham, stefan wyszynski, wyszynski
Derived form noun primateship1
2. primate(n = noun.animal) - any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet;
is a kind of eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal
is a member of order primates, primates
has particulars: simian, ape, anthropoid, hominoid, hominid, monkey, prosimian, lemur, tarsier
1. The chief ecclesiastic in a national church; one who presides over other bishops in a province; an archbishop. [1913 Webster]
2. One of the Primates. [1913 Webster]
primate, n.
1 any animal of the order Primates, the highest order of mammals, including tarsiers, lemurs, apes, monkeys, and man.
2 an archbishop.
Idiom:
Primate of All England the Archbishop of Canterbury. Primate of England the Archbishop of York.
Derivative:
primatial adj. primatology n. (in sense 1).
Etymology:
ME f. OF primat f. L primas -atis (adj.) of the first rank f. primus first, in med.L = primate
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