PRIMARY

Primary

The Primary is a children's organization and an official auxiliary within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . It acts as a Sunday school organization for the church's children under the age of 12.

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primary

Noun

  1. A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.
  2. The first year of grade school.
  3. A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
  4. The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system.
  5. A primary school.
  6. Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
  7. A primary colour.
  8. A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary

Verb

  1. To take part in a primary election.
  2. To challenge an incumbent sitting politician for their political party's endorsement to run for re-election, through running a challenger campaign in a primary election

Adjective

  1. The first in a group or series.
    Children attend primary school, and teenagers attend secondary school.
  2. Main; principal; placed ahead of others.
    Preferred stock has primary claim on dividends, ahead of common stock.
  3. Earliest formed; fundamental.
  4. Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.


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