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prima donna
[ pree-muh don-uh, prim-uh; Italian pree-mah dawn-nah ]
noun
- a first or principal female singer of an opera company.
- a temperamental person; a person who takes adulation and privileged treatment as a right and reacts with petulance to criticism or inconvenience.
prima donna
/ ˈpriːmə ˈdɒnə /
noun
- a female operatic star; diva
- informal.a temperamental person
prima donna
- A vain and overly sensitive person who is temperamental and difficult to work with: “That Jenkins girl is a good gymnast, but she certainly is a prima donna.” In opera , the prima donna is the principal female soloist. From Italian, meaning “first lady.”
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Example Sentences
Allen Barra blasts him for being a mediocre prima donna who will be beaten by the Jets.
How do you think that shyness played out during the 2008 season when he was accused of being a prima donna?
The tenor dies; the prima donna appears to do the same, but the libretto consoles you by declaring that she only swoons.
He sang bravura airs with a facility of vocalisation any prima donna might have envied.
Even here the glorious voice of the prima donna floated clear as a silver bell.
The young girl became, thanks to him, the celebrated prima donna of the Fenice theatre, at Venice in 1820.
It was a dismissal, immediate, discourteous, on the grounds that she was quite unequal to fill the position of prima donna.
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