How to pronounce primer

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What primer means

noun

A small first schoolbook for learning to read

In a sentence: Long ago, children learned their letters from a thin little primer.

Where it comes from: It comes from a Latin word meaning first. Small books like these were used for centuries to teach children to read.

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