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primary

/ˈprʌɪm(ə)ri/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈprʌɪm(ə)ri/
primary
Syllables
3 syllables
Stress
1st syllable stress
Vowel
Schwa vowel
Ending
Final y vowel sound

pri - ma - ry -> primary

Myanmar meaning

(adj) ပထမအဆင့်။ အရင်းခံအကြောင်း။ အခြေခံ။ မူလတန်း။ အမေရိကန်ပြည်ထောင်စုတွင်ပင်မရွေးကောက်ပွဲမတိုင်မီပြည်နယ်အချို့တွင်ဦးစွာကျင်းပသောပါတီကိုယ်စားလှယ်အကြိုရွေးကောက်ပွဲ။

Full entry

primary /'praÇmǝri; US -meri/ adj

၁။ ပထမ (အဆင့်)။ အရင်းခံ (အကြောင်း)။ အခြေခံ။ primary causes ❍ in the primary stage of development ❍ The disease is still in its primary stage.
၂။ အဓိက။ ပဓာန။ ဦးစားပေး။ The primary aim of this course is to improve your spoken English. ❍ We need to establish the primary cause of the problem. ❍ Health care is of primary importance. ❍ Our primary concern must be the children. ❍ primary stress/ accent (ie the strongest stress given, when speaking, to a syllable in a word or compound, shown in this dictionary by the mark').
၃။ မူလတန်း။ primary teachers ❍ teaching at primary level. Compare SECONDARY, TERTIARY
n (also 'primary election) (အမေရိကန်ပြည်ထောင်စုတွင်) ပင်မရွေးကောက်ပွဲ မတိုင်မီ ပြည်နယ်အချို့တွင် ဦးစွာကျင်းပသော ပါတီကိုယ်စားလှယ် အကြိုရွေးကောက်ပွဲ။ the presidential primaries.
❏ primarily /praÇ'merǝli; Brit also 'praÇmǝrǝli/ adv အဓိကအားဖြင့်။ အရင်းခံအားဖြင့်။ The problem is not primarily a financial one. ❍ The purpose of the programme is primarily educational.
❏ primary colour (US color ) အခြားသောအရောင် အားလုံး မြစ်ဖျားခံရာ အနီ၊ အဝါ၊ အပြာဟူသော အရောင်သုံးမျိုးအနက် တစ်ခု။
❏ primary education n [U] မူလတန်းပညာ(ရေး)။
❏ primary health care n [U] အထွေထွေကုဆရာဝန်က ကြည့်ရှုကုသပေးမှု။ (ဆေးရုံ၌ကုသပေးခြင်း မဟုတ်သော ကုသမှု မျိုး)။
❏ primary school n [U]
၁။ (Brit ) ၅ နှစ်မှ ၁၁ နှစ် ကလေးများအတွက်ကျောင်း။ ၂။ (US also elementary school, grade school, grammar school ) ၆ နှစ်မှ ၈ နှစ် ကလေးများ အတွက် ကျောင်း။

More examples
  • Dealing with crime is our primary concern.
  • The primary objective is to ensure improvements in animal welfare.
  • A primary teacher
  • Primary education
  • Primary sources of information
  • A primary tumour
  • The primary visual cortex
Synonyms
main, chief, most important, key, prime, principal, major, crucial, anteposition, balloting, basic, central, constitutional, core, direct, dominant, earliest, earliness, election, elementary, essential, first, foremost, fundamental, idiopathic, immediate, important, initial, leading, pre-eminence, precedence, precedency, precession, preexistence, prevenience, previousness, primal, primitive, simple, top, underlying, vital, vote-casting
Antonyms
advanced, auxiliary, concealed by, covered by, extra, held down, in the power of, inessential, inferior, last, minor, nonessential, on the bottom, on the nether side, on the underside, pressed down, secondary, sophisticated, subordinate, substract, the bottom, to the bottom, trivial, under, unimportant
Cross references
mainchiefmost importantkeyprimeprincipalmajorcrucialantepositionballotingbasiccentralconstitutionalcoredirectdominantearliestearlinesselectionelementaryessentialfirstforemostfundamentalidiopathicimmediateimportantinitial
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