Meaning of प्राथमिक in English

Having only one principle or constituent part; consisting of a single element; simple; uncompounded; as, an elementary substance.
Pertaining to, or treating of, the elements, rudiments, or first principles of anything; initial; rudimental; introductory; as, an elementary treatise.
Pertaining to one of the four elements, air, water, earth, fire.
Alt. of Propaedeutical
A formative letter at the beginning of a word.
Introductory; previous; preceding the main discourse or business; prefatory; as, preliminary observations to a discourse or book; preliminary articles to a treaty; preliminary measures; preliminary examinations.
That which precedes the main discourse, work, design, or business; something introductory or preparatory; as, the preliminaries to a negotiation or duel; to take one's preliminaries the year before entering college.
First; primary; original; chief.
First in order of time or development or in intention; primitive; fundamental; original.
First in order, as being preparatory to something higher; as, primary assemblies; primary schools.
First in dignity or importance; chief; principal; as, primary planets; a matter of primary importance.
Earliest formed; fundamental.
Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
That which stands first in order, rank, or importance; a chief matter.
A primary meeting; a caucus.
One of the large feathers on the distal joint of a bird's wing. See Plumage, and Illust. of Bird.
A primary planet; the brighter component of a double star. See under Planet.
Primatical.
The state or privileges of the firstborn.
A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2.
Rudimentary.
Of or pertaining to rudiments; consisting in first principles; elementary; initial; as, rudimental essays.
Very imperfectly developed; in an early stage of development; embryonic.