elementary
Relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of somethingRelating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something.
» I miss my elementary school teachers.
Я скучаю по своим учителям начальной школы.
Я скучаю по своим школьным учителям.
Meaning
11 sensesRelating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something.
elementar
элемента́рныйelementárnyj
елемента́рнийelementárnyj
of or being the essential or basic part
Very simple.
Relating to an elementary school.
нача́льныйnačálʹnyj
of or pertaining to or characteristic of elementary school or elementary education
Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes.
Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes.
Relating to a subatomic particle.
элемента́рныйelementárnyj
Involving only a single reaction step and transition state.
Which performs a row or column operation on another matrix when the two are multiplied; see Elementary matrix on Wikipedia.Wikipedia (Such matrices are called "elementary" because they generate the general linear group).
Arising from Vieta's formulas; see Elementary symmetric polynomial on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Straightforward, employing only basic techniques; not requiring substantial knowledge (of some particular domain, object, etc.).
Straightforward, employing only basic techniques; not requiring substantial knowledge (of some particular domain, object, etc.).
Making no use of complex analysis.
(archaic)Sublunary; not celestial; belonging to the sublunary sphere, to which the four classical elements (earth, air, fire and water) were confined; composed of or pertaining to these four elements.
Examples
137 sentencesI miss my elementary school teachers.
ruЯ скучаю по своим учителям начальной школы.
I've known Tom since elementary school.
Tom is an elementary school teacher.
Tom is an elementary school student.
Tom is still in elementary school.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English elementare, from Latin elementārius (“elementary”), from elementum (“oFrom Middle English elementare, from Latin elementārius (“elementary”), from elementum (“one of the four elements of antiquity; fundamentals”) + -ārius (adjective-forming suffix). Cognate with French élémentaire. By surface analysis, element + -ary.
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Forms
more elementary, most elementary| Comparative | more elementary Lesson |
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| Superlative | most elementary Lesson |
regular
Synonyms
6 synonyms- easy and not involved or complicated:simpleuncomplicatedunproblematic
- of or being the essential or basic part:elementalprimarybasal
Word family
22 related wordsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form
Collocations
7 patterns- elementary school
- in elementary school
- an elementary school
- an an elementary
- were in elementary
- to elementary school
- went to elementary