Other forms: premieres
A premiere is the first public showing of a film. World premiere, the premiere is tonight, premiere in Cannes.
It is an event as much as a screening, and a world premiere is the first anywhere while a national premiere is only the first in that country. The word is the French for first, and it is also used as a verb — the film premiered in May.
1nounpremiereThe first public showing of a film.
“The actors walked down the red carpet at the premiere of their new film.”
premiere is a first showing.
French premiere means first, from Latin primarius, of the first rank, from primus, first.
French
première — first
English, today
premiere
From French première (“first”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA