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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The season’s world premieres, presented at the company’s annual Fall Fashion Gala, came and went without suggesting they’ll find a secure place in NYCB’s rich store of works accumulated over the past 78 years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
It became the basis for “Eternally Yours,” their new CBS comedy that premieres Thursday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Arriving in theaters this fall after multiple splashy film festival premieres, it announces the 38-year-old actress, best known for playing a bedraggled spy in the Apple TV+ series Slow Horses, as a potential Oscar contender.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Wonka's The Golden Ticket premieres on Netflix this week, with a two-part finale scheduled for 30 September.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
I was invited to dozens of parties a week: art-gallery openings, benefit balls, movie premieres, book parties, and private dinners in marble- floored dining rooms.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
Decades ago, actresses attending film premières and award ceremonies were outfitted by movie-studio costume designers.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 25, 2019
Whereas Barber liked to spend weekends quietly tending to the racehorses he owns, Ulrich liked going to parties and premières.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 27, 2018
Now CBS has jumped into the ring: “The Good Fight,” which premières Sunday, transports viewers back to May, 2016, when “The Good Wife” was still on the air.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 18, 2017
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
