Apes are our cousins and primate relatives.
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Primate
//ˈpɹaɪmeɪt//
Synonyms for "primate" (155 found)
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Closest matches (31)
Strong matches (47)
Related words (77)
humanoidinsectivoreinvertebrateiron age manlangurlemurmacaquemammalmammalianmanman of oldmandrillmarmosetmarsupialmarsupialianmetropolitanmissing linkmonkeymountain gorillaneanderthal man
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neolithic manold hatold-fashionedold-timeyoldfangledomnivoreorangorangutanoreopithecusout of fashionout of seasonout-of-dateoutdatedoutmodedpapaparanthropuspatriarchpeking manpenitentiarypithecanthropusplesianthropuspontiffpopepreadamiteprebendaryprehistoric manprehumanprelateprimitiveproboscis monkeyprotohumanquadrupedrectorreptilerhesusrhodesian manrodentruminantrural deansakiscavengersinanthropusstone age manstylelesssubdeansuffraganswanscombe mantroglodyteunfashionableungulatevarmintverminvertebratevicarzinjanthropus
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4 entriesrelated to
18 entriesShowing 16 of 18 words.
Translations
93 translations across 61 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- primaat noun (mammal)
Albanian
1 entries- primat noun (mammal)
Arabic
1 entries- رَئِيسِيَّات noun (mammal)
Armenian
1 entries- պրիմատ noun (mammal)
Asturian
1 entries- primate noun (mammal)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- primat noun (mammal)
Belarusian
1 entries- прыма́т noun (mammal)
Bulgarian
2 entries- архиепи́скоп noun (archbishop or bishop)
- прима́т noun (mammal)
Burmese
1 entries- ပရိုင်းမိတ် noun (mammal)
Catalan
1 entries- primat noun (mammal)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 總主教 /总主教 noun (archbishop or bishop)
- 靈長目 /灵长目 noun (mammal)
- 靈長目動物 /灵长目动物 noun (mammal)
Czech
2 entries- nehetnatec noun (mammal)
- primát noun (mammal)
Danish
1 entries- primat noun (mammal)
Dutch
2 entries- primaat noun (mammal)
- primaat noun (archbishop or bishop)
Estonian
2 entries- esikloomaline noun (mammal)
- primaat noun (mammal)
Finnish
2 entries- kädellinen noun (mammal)
- priimas noun (archbishop or bishop)
French
2 entries- primat noun (archbishop or bishop)
- primate noun (mammal)
Georgian
1 entries- პრიმატი noun (mammal)
German
3 entries- Primas noun (archbishop or bishop)
- Primat noun (mammal)
- Primat noun (archbishop or bishop)
Greek
1 entries- πρωτεύον noun (mammal)
Hebrew
1 entries- פְּרִימָט noun (mammal)
Hindi
1 entries- नरवानर noun (mammal)
Hungarian
2 entries- főemlős noun (mammal)
- prímás noun (archbishop or bishop)
Icelandic
3 entries- fremdardýr noun (mammal)
- prímati noun (mammal)
- prímati noun (archbishop or bishop)
Indonesian
1 entries- primata noun (mammal)
Italian
3 entries- primate noun (mammal)
- primate noun (archbishop or bishop)
- primati noun (mammal)
Japanese
2 entries- 大主教 noun (archbishop or bishop)
- 霊長類 noun (mammal)
Kazakh
1 entries- примат noun (mammal)
Korean
3 entries- 대주교 noun (archbishop or bishop)
- 령장류 noun (mammal)
- 영장류 noun (mammal)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- примат noun (mammal)
Latin
1 entries- prīmās noun (archbishop or bishop)
Latvian
1 entries- primāts noun (mammal)
Lithuanian
1 entries- primatas noun (mammal)
Macedonian
1 entries- прима́т noun (mammal)
Malay
1 entries- primat noun (mammal)
Manx
1 entries- ard-aspick noun (archbishop or bishop)
Māori
2 entries- paraimete noun (archbishop or bishop)
- pīhopa mātāmua noun (archbishop or bishop)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- destdar noun (mammal)
- prîmat noun (mammal)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- primat noun (mammal)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- primat noun (mammal)
Occitan
1 entries- primat noun (mammal)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- میمون noun (mammal)
Persian
2 entries- نخستی noun (mammal)
- نخستیسان noun (mammal)
Polish
2 entries- naczelny noun (mammal)
- prymas noun (archbishop or bishop)
Portuguese
2 entries- primado noun (archbishop or bishop)
- primata noun (mammal)
Romanian
2 entries- primat noun (mammal)
- primat noun (archbishop or bishop)
Russian
4 entries- архиепи́скоп noun (archbishop or bishop)
- епи́скоп noun (archbishop or bishop)
- прима́с noun (archbishop or bishop)
- прима́т noun (mammal)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- prìmāt noun (mammal)
- прѝма̄т noun (mammal)
Slovak
1 entries- primát noun (mammal)
Slovene
2 entries- primat noun (mammal)
- prvak noun (mammal)
Spanish
2 entries- primado noun (archbishop or bishop)
- primate noun (mammal)
Swedish
1 entries- primat noun (mammal)
Tajik
1 entries- примат noun (mammal)
Tatar
1 entries- примат noun (mammal)
Thai
1 entries- ไพรเมต noun (mammal)
Turkish
1 entries- primat noun (mammal)
Turkmen
1 entries- primat noun (mammal)
Ukrainian
1 entries- прима́т noun (mammal)
Uzbek
1 entries- primat noun (mammal)
Vietnamese
3 entries- tổng giám mục noun (archbishop or bishop)
- động vật có tay noun (mammal)
- động vật linh trưởng noun (mammal)
Yiddish
1 entries- פּרימאַט noun (mammal)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Madame Berthe's mouse lemur is the smallest primate in the world.
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According to Tom, the theory of evolution by random mutations and natural selection is not convincing for several reasons, the most important of which is the existence of DNA. Among other unacceptable points, Tom adds, this theory claims that the human mind – Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Galileo, Newton, Shakespeare, Descartes, Da Vinci, Mozart, Einstein, Darwin himself – evolved from the mind of an unidentified primate, which would be our ancestor.
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At Kyoto University's Primate Research Institute, a chimpanzee is performing a task that is impossible for a person to do, revealing how chimp cognition can mirror—and in some cases surpass—the capabilities of the human brain.
Source: tatoeba (10984187)
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