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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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