PREMIER Synonyms: 147 Similar and Opposite Words

premier

adjective

pri-ˈmir

Definition of premier

as in first

coming before all others in time or order a space shuttle on its premier voyage

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as in chief

highest in rank or authority the premier authority on butterflies

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as in main

coming before all others in importance the premier social occasion of the summer season

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Recent Examples of premier Yandy Diaz and Jonathan Aranda are on-base machines atop the Tampa order, while 23-year-old Junior Caminero (42 homers, 101 RBI) is already one of baseball’s premier run-producers. — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 2 Oct. 2026 There’s also the issue of public access if a premier public course ended up requiring significantly higher costs for everyday golfers. — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2026 Sportico is bringing the sports business industry’s premier event series to London next week. — Sportico Staff, Sportico.com, 30 Sep. 2026 Its discovery adds to our understanding of one of the world’s premier fossil deposits and what life in Illinois looked like even before dinosaurs. — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for premier

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Now Ricketts is running for his first full six-year term against independent Dan Osborn -- a race that initially was not expected to be competitive but is now being watched by the national parties.

— NICHOLAS INGRAM, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
One of the first of those is when their AI program teaches itself to beat the machine in a notoriously difficult video game.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of first

Adjective

Misheck Mutize, AfCRA’s chief architect, acknowledged that the agency’s main role would be to steer Africa’s $4 trillion savings into African assets rather than changing how foreign investors see the continent.

— Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Andrew Garfield stars as Altman, with Anora‘s Yura Borisov playing Ilya Sutskever, the chief scientific officer and co-founder of OpenAI who fires Altman.

— Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of chief

Adjective

Saudi Arabia kept its main international airport closed and moved Riyadh schools online on Sunday after a deadly strike by Yemen’s Houthi rebels the day before.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2026
Our main focus is on J & J’s Innovative Medicine pharma segment.

— Zev Fima,Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of main

Adjective

However, Efthymiou has been unable to get GBP100,000 (about $130,000) to perform the initial mouse-model study.

— Deepa Fernandes, STAT, 8 Oct. 2026
In the initial screening, AccuPoint Solutions uses a variety of primary data points as a minimum baseline, maximum ceiling or within a range to eliminate those firms that do not meet CNBC's requirements.

— Kelli Grant, CFP®,Riley de León, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of initial

Adjective

Considered the foremost institution for Asian art in the United States, this additional space will give the museum more room to display roughly 4,000 historic and contemporary works from its more than 21,000-piece collection of Asian artists.

— Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 6 Oct. 2026
Seeing the internet’s foremost disciple of glow meet the internet’s foremost purveyor of good lighting, though, feels quite satisfying—who else needs another excuse to update that Sephora cart?

— Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of foremost

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Steve Sarkisian will not budge on this issue One of the primary reasons Manning chose to attend Texas was Sarkisian.

— Mac Engel October 10, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Oct. 2026
Flooding rains will be a primary concern, with several showers from Rachel having already reached the United States shoreline as of 2 pm Saturday.

— Sean Macaday, Sacbee.com, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of primary

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The Chaidemenos family was among the first to introduce tourism to the sleepy fishing village of Oia with their 1983 opening of the 18-suite Canaves Oia Boutique Hotel, their inaugural property.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
After two decades helping build AirAsia and its parent Capital A, she was appointed in September as the inaugural chair of AI Malaysia, the country’s lead AI agency, charged with coordinating the National AI Action Plan 2026–2030.

— Ashleigh Nghiem, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026

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