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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

主要な

Pronunciation / Transliteration: shuyōna

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Prime/praɪm/
adjectivenounverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #850 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"数字7は素数です。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Of the best possible quality; excellent.

    "The restaurant is known for its prime cuts of meat."
As noun
  1. 1

    A number greater than one that has no positive divisors other than one and itself.

    "The number 7 is a prime."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin adjective 'primus', meaning 'first', originating from Proto-Indo-European *primo-. Over centuries, it evolved through Old French into Middle English, expanding from purely numerical sequence ('first in importance or time') to denote highest quality, peak condition, or readiness.

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