noun
- Rare a person with primacy
- an archbishop, or the highest-ranking bishop in a province, etc.
- any of an order (Primates) of mammals characterized esp. by flexible hands and feet, each with five digits, including humans, great apes, monkeys, and lemurs
Origin:
ME primat < OFr < LL primas (gen. primatis), of the first, chief < L primus, first: see prime