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Narrator: Today's word is "Premier" — adjective, pronounced /ˈpremiə/, with the stress on "prem".
Narrator: Premier means most important, famous or successful.
Narrator: In plain English, the premier one is the top one.
Narrator: It comes from the French premier, first, from the Latin primarius.
Narrator: A common collocation is "the Premier League", which describes England's top football division.
Narrator: It differs from "premiere", because a premiere is a first performance, while premier means best.
Narrator: As a noun, a premier is a head of government, especially in Canadian provinces or Australian states.
Narrator: Sport, politics, business and marketing all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: premier means first in rank.
Speaker A: Is it the Premier League or the Premiere League?
Speaker B: Premier, no final "e"! PREMIER comes from the French for first.
Speaker A: So premier means top?
Speaker B: Exactly, the top division.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "It is the country's premier art gallery", meaning best. "Arsenal play in the Premier League", sport. "The premier of Ontario spoke today", a politician.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Premier and premiere are different words; only the film first night has the final "e".
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Leading is its cousin, foremost is its formal twin, and top is the plain alternative, but premier keeps its first-class charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "premier" in AI prompts — useful for sports apps and brand copy.
Speaker A: How would a sports app use it?
Speaker B: Show live tables.
Prompt: Build a React component that displays the current Premier League table with points, goal difference and form.
Speaker A: And brand copy?
Speaker B: Avoid empty claims.
Prompt: Rewrite this hotel description so it justifies calling itself the town's premier venue with concrete facts.
Speaker A: Could it help spell-checking?
Speaker B: Yes, confusable words.
Prompt: Flag uses of premier and premiere in this article that look like the wrong word.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: News summaries.
Prompt: Summarise today's statements from each provincial premier in Canada in one sentence each.
Premier — meaning in Arabic & definition More P courses GL Dictionary