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primus
1[ prahy-muhs ]
noun
- Scottish Episcopal Church. a bishop who is elected to represent the church body and to summon and preside at synods but who possesses no metropolitan power.
primus
2[ prahy-muhs ]
adjective
- (in prescriptions) first.
Primus
3[ pree-muhs ]
noun
- Pearl, 1919–1994, U.S. dancer, born in Trinidad.
Primus
1/ ˈpraɪməs /
noun
- a portable paraffin cooking stove, used esp by campers Also calledPrimus stove
primus
2/ ˈpraɪməs /
noun
- Scottish Episcopal Church the presiding bishop in the Synod
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of primus1
Example Sentences
He phoned Richard Primus, a law professor at the University of Michigan, to see if Primus agreed and would make the argument publicly.
As long as the United States was the economic primus inter pares, those arguments were hard to gainsay.
Primus Truber, a Lutheran minister, who gave the first edition of the Vandalie scriptures, died.
A sledging cook will often make a disagreeable faux pas by extinguishing the primus in the preparation of hoosh.
Upon the primus heater, alone, did we rely for cooking the meals on sledging journeys.
In the "Nansen Cooker," which we used, a maximum result is secured from the heat of the primus.
To light a primus in a draughty tent at a low temperature calls for some forbearance before one is a thorough master of the art.
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