world premiere
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3.9
- noun
- /wɜrld prɪˈmɪr/
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estreno mundial
- Her sparkly new work, Fountains of Kansas City, got its world premiere in the Symphony's opening concert last season.
So in The composer, it was a world premiere of a modern composition.
- So in The composer, it was a world premiere of a modern composition.
- It was I had to be there for the world premiere of The Cove, the premiere in Japan at the Foreign Correspondents.
- You know, the website link, you know, hype it up as far as world premiere because it is your facts.
- And you're like, ah, man, being we had a thing at the Q&A; for favour the very first, the very first world premiere.
Examples
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Tonight, I got to attend the world premiere of Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit.
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I was just calling to see if you want to attend the world premiere of my new film, "Bride of the Monster."
Fiction book (1994) -
Yeah, yeah, and we'll see you all tomorrow at our world premiere of Behind the Try.
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So that was our big world premiere kick off with them.
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I'll see you both on Tuesday for the world premiere.
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The play had its world premiere at New York's Second Stage Theatre last spring.
Blog text (8) -
Two years later, it held the world premiere of the specially commissioned opera Aida.
Academic text (1995) -
Simone Dinnerstein gave the world premiere of Nico Muhly's "You Can't Get There from Here."
Blog text (32) -
His play, Resort 76, based on Rachmil Bryks' A Cat in the Ghetto, had its world premiere at the Royal Dramatic Theater, Stockholm.
Fiction book (1995) -
It's a beautiful summer evening in Los Angeles, and we're all here for the world premiere of The Oldest Gun in the West.
Synonyms
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4.4
The first public showing of a film, play, or music performance
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3.4
The first public performance of a play or film
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4.1
A public event where people see something new for the first time
An opening performance of a play or show
How Public
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the first public performance anywhere in the world' is directly derivable from combining 'world' (global, pertaining to the whole planet) with 'premiere' (the initial public performance). This is a straightforward adjective+noun composition common across many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily understand it.
Etymology
World premiere comes from putting premiere, meaning a 'first' performance, together with world, meaning the whole earth. So, the phrase names the very first public showing of a play, film, piece of music, or other work anywhere in the world.