primary meaning
EN
[ˈpraɪməri] [ˈpraɪmɛri] 
US WPrimary
- Primary may refer to:
- NounPLprimariesSUF-ary
- A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.
- The first year of grade school.
- A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
- The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system.
- A primary school.
- (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
- A primary colour.
- (electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary.
- A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.
- VerbSGprimariesPRprimaryingPT, PPprimaried
- (US) VI To take part in a primary election.
- (US, politics) 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.
- (US) VI To take part in a primary election.
- AdjectiveCOMmore primarySUPmost primary
- The first in a group or series.
- Children attend primary school, and teenagers attend secondary school.
- Main; principal; placed ahead of others.
- Preferred stock has primary claim on dividends, ahead of common stock.
- (geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.
- (chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
- (medicine) Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
- (medicine) Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.
- The first in a group or series.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Geography is overtaught in my son's primary school.
- The follicular route, a primary pathway for drug delivery, is used to determine the effect of topical therapies on the appendageal pathway.
- The primary objective is to attrit the units sufficiently so that they cannot close with the units in contact.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Primary screening of the immunotropic activity of aloe preparations elaborated by V.P.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of primary in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Adjectives
- en primarying
- en primary key
- en primary keys
- en primary work
- en primary data
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "primary" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb.