jeune premier

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

jeune premier (plural jeunes premiers or jeune premiers)

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

References

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

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒœn pʁə.mje/

Noun

jeune premier m (plural jeunes premiers)

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

Descendants

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

See also

  • vieux beau
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