noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a film premiere (= the first showing of a film )
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Film premieres tend to be glamorous occasions.
a movie premiere (= the first showing of a movie )
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She wore the dress to a movie premiere.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
world
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Gattaca had its world premiere last month at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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Fergie and Andrew were guests of honour when the film was given its world premiere in London four years ago.
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Riverdance, after its world premiere at the Public Theatre in Dublin in 1995, has taken the world by storm.
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In the previous year Kondrashin had conducted the world premiere at the Moscow Conservatoire.
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The world premiere will be in Los Angeles next year.
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There were thousands of paparazzi and fans because they'd never had a world premiere in Houston before.
■ VERB
give
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When Mingus's vast orchestral work Epitaph was given its posthumous premiere in 1989, Adams was one of the main soloists.
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Fergie and Andrew were guests of honour when the film was given its world premiere in London four years ago.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Singing in the Rain" begins with its stars attending a movie premiere .
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I've been invited to the premiere of the new Schliessman play.
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Music-lovers gathered in Boston for the world premiere of Gershwin's opera, "Porgy and Bess."
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The premiere of the miniseries "Roots" took place on Jan. 23, 1977.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bellini was said to have wept at the Parma premiere .
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Lazarus Productions presents the West Coast premiere of! bold!
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No less a luminary than Wilhelm Furtwangler conducted the premiere .
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The story of its ill-fated Paris premiere in 1913, which provoked fighting in the audience, is well known.
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When Mingus's vast orchestral work Epitaph was given its posthumous premiere in 1989, Adams was one of the main soloists.