Primate
WordNet
noun
(1) Any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet
(2) A senior clergyman and dignitary
WiktionaryText
Etymology
From or , from a noun use of , from
Noun
- A mammal of the order Primates, including simians and prosimians.
- Primates range from lemures to gorillas
- A simian anthropoid; an ape, human or large monkey.
- 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 circonscription.
- In the Anglican Church, an archbishop, or the highest-ranking bishop of an ecclesiastic province.
Related terms
- Primates
- primateship
- primatial
- Primate of All England
- Primate of England
- Primate of the Gauls
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