Head
Head adjective - Highest in rank or authority.
Usage example: as head editor at the TV station for 17 years, he has hired and fired innumerable staff members
Prime is a synonym for head in chief topic. In some cases you can use "Prime" instead the word "Head" as an adjective or a noun, when it comes to topics like comparison.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| human | human head | human prime |
| old | old head | old prime |
| female | female head | female prime |
| full | full head | full prime |
| Other adjectives: long, current, original, fake, dead, entire, real, male, great, former, tall, next, last, previous. | ||
Common collocations
| person | head person | prime person |
Both words in one sentence
- Longarm, who's really the Decepticon Shockwave, goes on to become a Prime and the head of Autobot intelligence.
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Title Drop: Pretty much every episode: "S/he is our prime suspect." To Absent Friends: Jane, her sister and her niece head to the pub across the road from the crematorium after her dad's funeral.
Source: Series / Prime Suspect - And brutally cleaving Megatron's head in half and then using the latter's gun to blow Sentinel Prime's head off for slaughtering thousands of people and several of his friends.
Source: Berserk Button / Film
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