What is Prima?

  • (adj): Indicating the most important performer or role.
    Example: "Prima ballerina"; "prima donna"
    Synonyms: leading, star, starring, stellar
    See also — Additional definitions below

Some articles on prima:

Alstom Prima Diesel Locomotives - Technology
... The Prima type locomotives built at Alstoms Valencia plant were engined with General motors engines in fact the entire power train - engine, generator ... The Prima diesels for SNCF Fret used MTU engines ... Modern innovations in the Prima class included - a centrally located drivers seat with ergonomically arranged controls, a monocoque rigid bodyshell ...
Sam Butera - Biography
... The 500 Club was owned by Louis Prima's brother, Leon, and it was this connection that lead him to his much-heralded Vegas-based collaborations with Prima and Smith ... Prima transitioned from big band to Vegas somewhat hastily, having signed a contract with the Sahara without having first assembled a back-up band ... From his Vegas hotel room, Prima phoned Butera in New Orleans and had him assemble a band posthaste ...
List Of My Life As A Teenage Robot Characters - Minor Characters - Don Prima
... The extremely good-looking teen guy in Tremorton, Donald "Don" Prima (voiced by Quinton Flynn), is considered the most handsomest ... His name is a masculine play on "prima donna" ...
Leon Prima
... Leon Prima (b ... Prima was the older brother of the singer Louis Prima, and began on piano before picking up trumpet ... Prima led two sides in 1945 and four in 1954, the latter of which were released on Southland Records ...
Prima - In Fiction
... Prima (Transformers), an Autobot leader in Transformers Prima or Lorelei, a member of Elite Four in Pokémon PRIMA, a fictional machine in Are You Afraid of the Dark? by Sidney Sheldon ...

More definitions of "Prima":

  • (noun): Used primarily as eating apples.

Famous quotes containing the word prima:

    “A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.”
    —Freeman Dyson (b. 1923)

    “I’ve given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I’ve had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    “Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.”
    —Barbara Walters (b. 1931)