premiere
noun
a first public performance or showing of a play, opera, film, etc.
premieres
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pluralof premiere.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
premières
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pluralof première.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
premierenouna first public performance or showing of a play, opera, film, etc.
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It became the basis for “Eternally Yours,” their new CBS comedy that premieres Thursday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
The CBS newsmagazine premieres its 59th season Sunday, following dramatic shake-ups.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Season 4 of “Tulsa King” premieres Friday, Oct.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
Risk-aversion on the part of budget-conscious studio executives means many studios have preferred to launch films through their own tightly controlled premieres instead of at festivals, which provide no guarantee of rave reviews from critics.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
By the second half of the twentieth century this was certainly not the case for premieres of new operas or symphonies.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Decades ago, actresses attending film premières and award ceremonies were outfitted by movie-studio costume designers.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 25, 2019
Stevens’s background was in developing new plays, and under his watch, C.T.C. began to mount regional and world premières, some of which would go on to have life elsewhere.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 17, 2018
More than a hundred composers were featured, more than half of them supplying world premières.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 20, 2016
He was mooching around film sets and premières, and the parts began rolling in.
From Economist ● Jun. 9, 2016
Furies trip measures and strike attitudes in pink tights and draperies of unæsthetic hues, when not engaged in witnessing, with qualified interest, incidental dances by two premières danseuses.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 15, 1890 by Various
