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Prima Donna
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What does Prima Donna mean?
noun
- The principal female singer or the leading lady.
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noun
- (derogatory, informal) A person who considers themselves much more important than others, has high expectations of others and becomes angry when their demands are not met.
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The first words of the commissary of police, on entering the managers' office, were to ask after the missing prima donna.
While there, the prima donna heard, for the first time in her life, wild mocking birds singing in the trees, and great was her delight thereat.
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He had finally run off with a prima donna assoluta, who, it was to be hoped, had given him a taste of the quality implied in her title.
Later he met a prima donna, fell in love with and married her, forsook telephony for ballooning, and lost his life in attempting to fly across the English Channel.
Thursday the girls had a drive in the park, and in the evening Miss Barry took them to a concert in the Academy of Music, where a noted prima donna was to sing.