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primary


primary - noun

  • a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen
  • one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing
  • (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it
  • coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit

    • primary - adjective

    • of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary
    • not derived from or reducible to something else; basic
    • most important element
    • of or being the essential or basic part
    • of primary importance

    primary - thesaurus

    basal   chief   elemental   elementary   main   master   principal  


    View spelling list Words ending in ary and learn about the word primary in the Spellzone English spelling course, Unit 25. Word endings: -er, -ar, -or, -our, re, a and -ery, -ary.

    Scrabble score for primary

    p is 3 r is 1 i is 1 m is 3 a is 1 r is 1 y is 4
    Scrabble score = 14

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