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Noun	1.	Prima - used primarily as eating apples dessert apple, eating apple - an apple used primarily for eating raw without cooking
Adj.	1.	prima - indicating the most important performer or role; "the leading man"; "prima ballerina"; "prima donna"; "a star figure skater"; "the starring role"; "a stellar role"; "a stellar performance" leading, star, starring, stellar major - of greater importance or stature or rank; "a major artist"; "a major role"; "major highways"

Translations

الرّاقِصَة الرَّئيسِيَّه

první baletka

førstedanserindeprima ballerina

Primaballerina

tärkein

danseuse étoile

aîalballettdansmær

primabalerinaprimadona

primabalerīna

baş kadın dansçı

芭蕾舞团的首席女星

prima

(ˈpriːmə) : prima ballerina

the leading female dancer in a ballet company.

prima donna (-ˈdonə)

a leading female opera singer.

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I said to myself; 'Here is a born prima donna--I will bring her out!' She is the third I have brought out in my time.

Our young prima donna shall come in the evening, and sing to us.

The future prima donna had done practicing her scales, and was trying her voice now in selections from Italian operas.

"And then," he resumed, "shall I go to my young prima donna upstairs and leave you here alone?"

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prima fugit.' I turned back to the beginning of the third book, which we had read in class that morning.

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This was especially the case when the pleasure was a delicate one, as his pleasures mostly were; and on this occasion the moment he looked forward to was so rare and exquisite in quality that--well, if he had timed his arrival in accord with the prima donna's stage-manager he could not have entered the Academy at a more significant moment than just as she was singing: "He loves me--he loves me not--HE LOVES ME!--" and sprinkling the falling daisy petals with notes as clear as dew.

" the prima donna sang, and "M'ama!", with a final burst of love triumphant, as she pressed the dishevelled daisy to her lips and lifted her large eyes to the sophisticated countenance of the little brown Faust-Capoul, who was vainly trying, in a tight purple velvet doublet and plumed cap, to look as pure and true as his artless victim.

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And then it was a fine report in Latin, which the sub-monitor of Torchi carried piteously to Dom Claude with this dolorous marginal comment,-- Rixa; prima causa vinum optimum potatum .

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Raoul, of course, was the first to be astonished at the prima donna's absence.

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Thursday the girls had a drive in the park, and in the evening Miss Barry took them to a concert in the Academy of Music, where a noted prima donna was to sing.

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Later he met a prima donna, fell in love with and married her, forsook telephony for ballooning, and lost his life in attempting to fly across the English Channel.

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There are, it seems to me, prima facie different kinds of causal laws, one belonging to physics and the other to psychology.