Defenition of the word primate

• Defenition of the word primate

  • Order of mammals containing monkeys, apes, and human beings.
  • In the Western Catholic Church and in the Anglican Communion, a bishop with higher rank than a metropolitan archbishop but, in the Catholic Church, with less high rank than a major archbishop.
  • a senior clergyman
  • any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet
  • a senior clergyman and dignitary

Synonyms for the word primate

• • ape
  • archpriest
  • hierarch
  • high priest
  • mandrill
  • monkey
  • prelate

Similar words in the primate

• • primate
  • primate's
  • primates

Meronymys for the word primate

• • order Primates
  • Primates

Hyponyms for the word primate

• • anthropoid
  • ape
  • Armand Jean du Plessis
  • Cardinal Newman
  • Cardinal Richelieu
  • Desmond Tutu
  • Duc de Richelieu
  • Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros
  • hominid
  • hominoid
  • Inge
  • James Usher
  • James Ussher
  • Jimenez de Cisneros
  • John Henry Newman
  • lemur
  • monkey
  • Newman
  • prosimian
  • Richelieu
  • simian
  • Stefan Wyszynski
  • tarsier
  • the Gloomy Dean
  • Tutu
  • Usher
  • Ussher
  • William of Wykeham
  • William Ralph Inge
  • Wykeham
  • Wyszynski

Hypernyms for the word primate

• • clergyman
  • eutherian
  • eutherian mammal
  • man of the cloth
  • placental
  • placental mammal
  • priest
  • reverend

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