plural of primum mobile

(painting) Without any preparatory layer of colour; with no underpainting.

(derogatory) Having the characteristics of a prima donna.

first or earliest in a group or series. / main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others. / (geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.

A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party. / The first year of grade school. / A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.

(US, politics, transitive, intransitive) To challenge (an incumbent sitting politician) for their political party's nomination to run for re-election, through running a challenger campaign in a primary election, especially one that is more ideologically extreme.

(zoology) A mammal of the order Primates, including simians and prosimians. / (informal) A simian anthropoid; an ape, human or monkey.

(ecclesiastical) In the Catholic Church, a rare title conferred to or claimed by the sees of certain archbishops, or the highest-ranking bishop of a present or historical, usually political circumscription.

The state or condition of being prime or first, as in time, place, rank, etc. / (archaic) excellence; supremacy.

(focus) Of a primary or central nature, first and foremost