NOUN
- a vain and temperamental person
- a distinguished female operatic singer; a female operatic star
How To Use prima donna In A Sentence
- Her career began as prima donna with the Royal Carl Rosa Opera Company.
- A singer transforming her voice from soprano to mezzo-soprano is no longer necessarily the prima donna. Times, Sunday Times
- In her new film, Victoria plays a prima donna television presenter.
- Though none of the artists on the roster at his own J records has shown signs of unrest, Davis knows better than most record executives the perils of the prima donna.
- I thought he was a 'castrato' who, as is the custom in Rome, performed all the parts of a prima donna. The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova
- Nobody who comes to this club is allowed to behave like a prima donna.
- And I thought the cute, redheaded backup singer too much a prima donna and her bugout eyes distracting. Last Night « PubliCola
- He calls Francie his Prima Donna and gets ready in his white dickey and pearl studs for work.
- Her career began as prima donna with the Royal Carl Rosa Opera Company.
- Not that any of them kids notices me anyway, because every one of them is a prima donna or a prima don, which they just want everybody to look at _them. Asimov's Science Fiction
