Crossword-Solution: PRIME 5 letters, 243 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Prime	#	Donne (#) (pl. ) of Prima donna
Prime	a.	First in order of time; original; primeval; primitive; primary.
Prime	a.	First in rank, degree, dignity, authority, or importance; as, prime minister.
Prime	a.	First in excellence; of highest quality; as, prime wheat; a prime quality of cloth.
Prime	a.	Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
Prime	a.	Lecherous; lustful; lewd.
Prime	a.	Marked or distinguished by a mark (') called a prime mark.
Prime	n.	The first part; the earliest stage; the beginning or opening, as of the day, the year, etc.; hence, the dawn; the spring.
Prime	n.	The spring of life; youth; hence, full health, strength, or beauty; perfection.
Prime	n.	That which is first in quantity; the most excellent portion; the best part.
Prime	a.	The morning; specifically (R. C. Ch.), the first canonical hour, succeeding to lauds.
Prime	a.	The first of the chief guards.
Prime	a.	Any number expressing the combining weight or equivalent of any particular element; -- so called because these numbers were respectively reduced to their lowest relative terms on the fixed standard of hydrogen as 1.
Prime	a.	A prime number. See under Prime, a.
Prime	a.	An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system; -- denoted by [']. See 2d Inch, n., 1.
Prime	a.	To apply priming to, as a musket or a cannon; to apply a primer to, as a metallic cartridge.
Prime	a.	To lay the first color, coating, or preparation upon (a surface), as in painting; as, to prime a canvas, a wall.
Prime	a.	To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to post; to coach; as, to prime a witness; the boys are primed for mischief.
Prime	a.	To trim or prune, as trees.
Prime	a.	To mark with a prime mark.
Prime	v. i.	To be renewed, or as at first.
Prime	v. i.	To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
Prime	v. i.	To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed; -- said of a steam boiler.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
PRIME	anagram	IMPER, PERIM, PIMER

We have 243 clues for the answer “PRIME”

Clue	Answers
2 or 3, e.g.	1 answer
7 or 11, e.g.	1 answer
A rate or a meridian	1 answer
Amazon ___ Video	1 answer
Amazon offering, and a hint to a replacement in the starred clues	1 answer
Amazon option	1 answer
Apply a basecoat to	1 answer
Beef designation	1 answer
Beef rating	1 answer
Best part of life	1 answer
Best quality	1 answer
Best rate	1 answer
COVER with first coat of paint	1 answer
Certain TV time.	1 answer
Certain minister	1 answer
Cut or time	1 answer
Do a pump job	1 answer
First in degree	1 answer
First-quality	1 answer
Having two positive factors	1 answer
High beef rating	1 answer
High-quality, as beef	1 answer
Highest grade of steak	1 answer
Highest quality grade for beef	1 answer
In the ___ of life	1 answer
Interest rate benchmark	1 answer
Kind of minister or mover	1 answer
Kind of minister or suspect	1 answer
Kind of rate or suspect	1 answer
Kind of rib or minister	1 answer
Kind of rib or time	1 answer
Kind of time or rib	1 answer
Like 11 and 17	1 answer
Like 12,345,678,910,987,654,321	1 answer
Like 17	1 answer
Like 2 and 5 but not 25	1 answer
Like 2 or 7, but not 27	1 answer
Like 2, 3 and 23	1 answer
Like 2017 and 2027	1 answer
Like 2017 but not 2018	1 answer
Like 3 and 5, but not 35	1 answer
Like 3, 5, and 7	1 answer
Like 3, 5, and 7, but not 1	1 answer
Like one and three	1 answer
Like some numbers and rib	1 answer
Like some steaks and some numbers	1 answer
Like standing rib roast	1 answer
Like the number 17	1 answer
Like the number 19	1 answer
Like the numbers 11, 13 and 17	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

REATE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with PRIME (5)

But first he casts to change his proper shape, Which else might work him danger or delay: And now a stripling Cherube he appeers, Not of the prime, yet such as in his face Youth smil’d Celestial, and to every Limb Sutable grace diffus’d, so well he feignd; Under a Coronet his flowing haire In curles on either cheek plaid, wings he wore Of many a colourd plume sprinkl’d with Gold, His habit fit for speed succinct, and held Before his decent steps a Silver wand.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

The Old Woman and the Wine-Jar AN OLD WOMAN found an empty jar which had lately been full of prime old wine and which still retained the fragrant smell of its former contents.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

God, Lord, Jehovah, Jahweh, Allah[obs3]; The Almighty, The Supreme Being, The First Cause, the Prime Mover; Ens Entium[Lat]; Author of all things, Creator of all things; Author of our being; Cosmoplast[obs3]; El; The Infinite, The Eternal; The All-powerful, The All-wise, The All- merciful, The All-holy.

Roget’s Thesaurus Peter Mark Roget 1991

Prime Minister Antall has declared his intention to move foward on privatization of state enterprises, provision for bankruptcy, land reform, and marketization of international trade, but concerns over acceptable levels of unemployment and inflation may slow the reform process.

The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992

Bathsheba, with a sad, bursting heart, looked at these primest specimens of her prime flock as they rolled there,— Swoln with wind and the rank mist they drew.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Quotes with PRIME (3)

In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly — only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeo…

Karl Marx Critique of the Gotha Program

A PRIME TRUTH - MAN IS SELFISH(Name of chapter)

William J. Federer Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic

If you seek for supreme predator, go find God. He hunts the prime killer of mankind, the Satan.

Toba Beta My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 183 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).