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Meaning of Primus | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈpɹaɪməs

Definitions

  1. One of the bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church, who presides at the meetings of the bishops, and has certain privileges but no metropolitan authority.
  2. A male given name.
  3. A Primus stove.

Equivalents

العربية برموس
Français primus
Українська примус

Examples

“1884, Gonzalo Canilla, speech at the Centenary of the consecration of Samuel Seabury my own grandfather, some time Bishop of Edinburgh, among its Primuses”
“Varya walked past slowly, idly peeping into each of them. There was a vendor of Turkish delight and halvah. A haberdasher's stall. A cobbler. A whitesmith. A repairer of Primuses and oil stoves.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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