PRIME MINISTER

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• PRIME MINISTER (noun)
  The noun PRIME MINISTER has 2 senses:

1. the person who holds the position of head of the government in the United Kingdom

2. the person who is head of government (in several countries)

  Familiarity information: PRIME MINISTER used as a noun is rare.

• PRIME MINISTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The person who holds the position of head of the government in the United Kingdom

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

PM; premier; Prime Minister

Hypernyms ("Prime Minister" is a kind of...):

chief of state; head of state (the chief public representative of a country who may also be the head of government)

Holonyms ("Prime Minister" is a member of...):

British Cabinet (the senior ministers of the British government)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The person who is head of government (in several countries)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

chancellor; premier; prime minister

Hypernyms ("prime minister" is a kind of...):

chief of state; head of state (the chief public representative of a country who may also be the head of government)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prime minister"):

taoiseach (the prime minister of the Irish Republic)

 Context examples 

The Prime Minister rose from the settee.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have never seen the Prime Minister so upset.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi noted on Monday, the fatalities were all unvaccinated.

(Samoan government temporarily shuts down for nationwide measles vaccination drive, Wikinews)

I was told that a great court lady, who had several children,—is married to the prime minister, the richest subject in the kingdom, a very graceful person, extremely fond of her, and lives in the finest palace of the island,—went down to Lagado on the pretence of health, there hid herself for several months, till the king sent a warrant to search for her; and she was found in an obscure eating-house all in rags, having pawned her clothes to maintain an old deformed footman, who beat her every day, and in whose company she was taken, much against her will.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The Prime Minister’s manner was subdued, but I could see by the gleam of his eyes and the twitchings of his bony hands that he shared the excitement of his young colleague.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This included the home of Prime Minister Tuilaepa, who told the press his nephew needed a dose.

(Samoan government temporarily shuts down for nationwide measles vaccination drive, Wikinews)

I told him, “that in the kingdom of Tribnia, by the natives called Langdon, where I had sojourned some time in my travels, the bulk of the people consist in a manner wholly of discoverers, witnesses, informers, accusers, prosecutors, evidences, swearers, together with their several subservient and subaltern instruments, all under the colours, the conduct, and the pay of ministers of state, and their deputies. The plots, in that kingdom, are usually the workmanship of those persons who desire to raise their own characters of profound politicians; to restore new vigour to a crazy administration; to stifle or divert general discontents; to fill their coffers with forfeitures; and raise, or sink the opinion of public credit, as either shall best answer their private advantage. It is first agreed and settled among them, what suspected persons shall be accused of a plot; then, effectual care is taken to secure all their letters and papers, and put the owners in chains. These papers are delivered to a set of artists, very dexterous in finding out the mysterious meanings of words, syllables, and letters: for instance, they can discover a close stool, to signify a privy council; a flock of geese, a senate; a lame dog, an invader; the plague, a standing army; a buzzard, a prime minister; the gout, a high priest; a gibbet, a secretary of state; a chamber pot, a committee of grandees; a sieve, a court lady; a broom, a revolution; a mouse-trap, an employment; a bottomless pit, a treasury; a sink, a court; a cap and bells, a favourite; a broken reed, a court of justice; an empty tun, a general; a running sore, the administration.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

When I discovered my loss, Mr. Holmes, which was at eight o’clock this morning, I at once informed the Prime Minister.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Prime Minister is lunching with me.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“No, sir,” said the Prime Minister, with the quick, decisive manner for which he was famous.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)