[pree-muh don-uh, prim-uh; It. pree-mah dawn-nah] 
[pree-me dawn-ne] . | 1. | a first or principal female singer of an opera company. |
| 2. | a temperamental person; a person who takes adulation and privileged treatment as a right and reacts with petulance to criticism or inconvenience. |
| pri·ma donna (prē'mə, prĭm'ə) n.
[Italian : prima, feminine of primo, first + donna, lady.] |
A vain and overly sensitive person who is temperamental and difficult to work with: “That Jenkins girl is a good gymnast, but she certainly is a prima donna.” In opera, the prima donna is the principal female soloist. From Italian, meaning “first lady.”
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