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Crossword-Solution: PRIMATE 7 letters, 78 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Primate a. The chief ecclesiastic in a national church; one who
presides over other bishops in a province; an archbishop.
Primate a. One of the Primates.

We have 78 clues for the answer “PRIMATE”

Clue Answers
Country's top bishop 1 answer
Loris or lemur, e.g. 1 answer
Lemur or gorilla 1 answer
Human or chimpanzee 1 answer
Human being or lemur 1 answer
Highest ranking prelate. 1 answer
Gorilla or lemur 1 answer
Gibbon or mandrill 1 answer
Episcopal leader 1 answer
member of an order of mammals including monkeys and humans 1 answer
Chief bishop or archbishop 1 answer
Bishop of the highest rank in a region 1 answer
Baboon or human 1 answer
Archbishop or bishop. 1 answer
Ape, for one 1 answer
Ape, e.g. 1 answer
Ape or gibbon, e.g. 1 answer
Ape or chimp 1 answer
Man or mandrill 1 answer
has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet 1 answer
Zoo category 1 answer
Word from the Latin for "dignitary" 1 answer
Top-ranking bishop 1 answer
Subject of evolutionary study 1 answer
Person, e.g. 1 answer
PRELATE, high 1 answer
Orang, for instance 1 answer
One of a very smart order 1 answer
ONE first in rank 1 answer
Most evolved mammal 1 answer
Marmoset or ape, e.g. 1 answer
Man or monkey 1 answer
Mammal like a human or ape 1 answer
Monkey or ape 2 answers
Ape or monkey 2 answers
Man or ape 2 answers
High churchman. 2 answers
Archbishop, e.g. 2 answers
CHIEF bishop 2 answers
Tarsier 2 answers
type of mammal 2 answers
ATELES 2 answers
Mandrill, for one 2 answers
BANDAR 3 answers
Gibbon or gorilla 3 answers
Barbary ape 4 answers
Human, for one 4 answers
Man, e.g. 5 answers
Man, for one 6 answers
CHURCH dignitary 7 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PRIMATE (5)

See Bishop.] A chief bishop; a church dignitary of the first class (often called a metropolitan or primate) who superintends the conduct of the suffragan bishops in his province, and also exercises episcopal authority in his own diocese.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995
The Pope, it is true, had refused to ratify the nomination, on which account all good Catholics were still bound to consider him as Bishop of Mallorca, and not as Primate of Spain.
The Bible in Spain George Borrow 1995
The bigoted and haughty primate, Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, controlled the religious affairs of the realm, and was consequently invested with powers which might have wrought the utter ruin of the two Puritan colonies, Plymouth and Massachusetts.
Twice-Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1996
The Archbishop proposed the standing 'Floreat domus de Balliolo'--to which the Master made due and amusing answer, himself giving the health of the Primate.
Life and Letters of Robert Browning Mrs. Sutherland Orr 2006
The emperors, as the guardians of the public peace, and as the first citizens of Rome and Constantinople, might effectually declare their wishes in the choice of a primate; but those absolute monarchs respected the freedom of ecclesiastical elections; and while they distributed and resumed the honors of the state and army, they allowed eighteen hundred perpetual magistrates to receive their important offices from the free suffrages of the people.
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon 1996

Quotes with PRIMATE (3)

I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so enduring. Christianity and Islam, theistic though they may claim to be, are both based on the fetishizing of human primates: Jesus in one case and Mohammed in the other. Neither of these figures can be called exactly historical but both have one thing in common even in their quasi-mythical dimension. Both of them were first encountered by the Jews. And the Jews, ravenous as they…
Christopher Hitchens Hitch-22: A Memoir
You know, there are just some things you never expect to face even on this job. A flying primate that shoots fire out its nose is one of them.
Sherrilyn Kenyon No Mercy
But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.
Jane Goodall
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 36 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).