elementary
pronunciation
How to pronounce elementary in British English:
UK [ˌelɪˈmentri]
How to pronounce elementary in American English:
US [ˌelɪˈmentri]
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- Adjective:
- easy and not involved or complicated
- of or being the essential or basic part
Word Origin
- elementary (adj.)
- late 14c., "having the nature of one of the four elements," from Middle French elementaire and directly from Latin elementarius "belonging to the elements or rudiments," from elementum (see element). Meaning "rudimentary, involving first principles" is from 1540s; meaning "simple" is from 1620s. In elementary school (1841) it has the "rudimentary" sense.
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Example
- 1. Elementary education should be available to all children .
- 2. Aristotle regarded touch as the most elementary sense .
- 3. I know it is simple and quite elementary but it 's how I feel .
- 4. Companies don 't usually make such elementary errors .
- 5. The argument that we have witnessed a pure market failure fails the most elementary tests .