pri·ma don·na [pree-muh don-uh, prim-uh; It. pree-mah dawn-nah]
–noun, plural pri·ma don·nas, Italian. pri·me don·ne [pree-me dawn-ne]
1. a first or principal female singer of an opera company.
2. a temperamental person; a person who takes adulation and privileged treatment as a right and reacts with petulance to criticism or inconvenience.
3. what Allie was called today by her tiny-pant-wearing supervisor after she questioned his sabotage of her work
[Origin: 1760–70; < It: lit., first lady; see prime, duenna]
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