English

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French jeune premier; first used in the early 1800s.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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jeune premier (plural jeunes premiers or jeune premiers)

  1. (theater) actor who plays young hero/lover roles

References

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  1. ^ jeune premier, n.”, in OED Online  , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022; jeune premier, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

French

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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jeune premier m (plural jeunes premiers)

  1. (theater) young actor playing young-lover roles
  2. (figuratively) leading man
    physique de jeune premierbody of a movie star, body of a Greek god, drop-dead looks

Descendants

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  • English: jeune premier
  • Romanian: june prim (calque)
  • Turkish: jönprömiye

See also

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