Definitions For 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
  • Coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit
  • (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it

adjective

  • Not derived from or reducible to something else; basic
  • Most important element
  • Of or being the essential or basic part

adjective

  • Of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary

verb

  • An election in which members of the same political party run against each other for the chance to be in a larger and more important election

Is Primaries a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
13
Words with Friends
15

The word Primary is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Primary in a Sentence

  • The economy was the primary focus of the debate.
  • The family is the primary social unit of human life.
  • The primary function of our schools is to educate our young people.

Synonyms for Primary

Antonyms for Primaries

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