premiere

See also: Premiere and première

English

Alternative forms

• première

Etymology

From French première (“first”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈmɪɚ/, /pɹɪ-/, /-ˈmiɚ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɛmjɛə/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: (General American) -ɪə(ɹ)
• Homophone: premier (in some US pronunciations, not in UK pronunciation)

Noun

premiere (plural premieres)

1. The first showing of a film, play or other form of entertainment, often held as a special event with celebrity guests.
2. The first episode of a television show or a particular season of that show.
3. In a series of narrative works, the installment that is chronologically set first.
4. The leading woman of a group, especially in a theatrical cast.

Antonyms

• finale

Translations

first showing of a film, play or other form of entertainment

• Arabic: الْعَرْضُ ٱلْأَوَّل m (al-ʕarḍu l-ʔawwal)
• Armenian: պրեմիերա (hy) (premiera)
• Azerbaijani: premyera
• Bulgarian: премиера (bg) f (premiera)
• Catalan: estrena (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 首演 (zh) (shǒuyǎn), 初次的演出 (chūcì de yǎnchū)

• Czech: premiéra (cs) f
• Dutch: première (nl) m or f
• Finnish: kantaesitys (fi), ensi-ilta (fi)
• French: première (fr) f
• Galician: estrea f
• German: Premiere (de) f, Uraufführung (de) f, Erstaufführung (de) f
• Greek: πρεμιέρα (el) f (premiéra)
• Hungarian: premier (hu), ősbemutató (hu)
• Indonesian: penampilan perdana, pertunjukkan perdana, premier
• Italian: prima (it) f
• Japanese: 初演 (ja) (しょえん, shoen), 封切り (ふうきり, fūkiri)
• Kazakh: премьера (premera)
• Macedonian: праизведба f (praizvedba), премиера f (premiera)
• Malay: tayangan perdana
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: premiere m

  Nynorsk: premiere m

• Polish: premiera (pl) f
• Portuguese: estreia (pt)
• Romanian: premieră (ro) f
• Russian: премье́ра (ru) f (premʹjéra)
• Spanish: estreno (es) m
• Swedish: premiär (sv) c
• Turkish: prömiyer (tr)

Verb

premiere (third-person singular simple present premieres, present participle premiering, simple past and past participle premiered)

1. (intransitive) Of a film or play, to play for the first time.

   The new film premieres this weekend.

   • 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     His two most recent films are last year's Greyhound, a Hanks-penned World War Two thriller in which he plays a naval commander, and now News of the World, a Western set in the years immediately following the close of the US Civil War, directed by Paul Greengrass, which is premiering around the world on Netflix tomorrow.

2. (transitive) To present a film or play for the first time.

   The local theatre will premiere its latest play this week.

Translations

(intransitive) of a film or play, to play for the first time

• Catalan: estrenar (ca)
• German: uraufführen (de)
• Portuguese: estrear (pt)
• Spanish: estrenar (es)
• Swedish: ha premiär

(transitive) to present a film or play for the first time

• Spanish: estrenar (es)

See also

• premier

Middle French

Adjective

premiere

1. feminine singular of premier

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from French première.

Noun

premiere m (definite singular premieren, indefinite plural premierer, definite plural premierene)

1. a premiere (first showing)

References

• “premiere” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from French première.

Noun

premiere m (definite singular premieren, indefinite plural premierar, definite plural premierane)

1. a premiere (first showing)

References

• “premiere” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From premia +‎ -re.

Noun

premiere f (plural premieri)

1. awarding

Declension

Declension of premiere

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) premiere	premierea	(niște) premieri	premierile
genitive/dative	(unei) premieri	premierii	(unor) premieri	premierilor
vocative	premiere, premiereo		premierilor

Spanish

Noun

premiere f (plural premieres)

1. premiere