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prima donna [pri:məˈdɒnə, Am -ˈdɑ:nə] N

donna Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to behave like a prima donna
se prendre pour une star
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The guy has been through all the different pangs of adolescent love and comes to the realisation that love is a prima donna.
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The prima donna had reached the soaring heights of a spectacular career.
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In her younger days she organized performances of Italian operas in her home, and took part herself as prima donna.
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They represent, respectively, the young girl's, the musician's, and the courtesan's side of the prima donna.
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The idea that this was cycling's biggest prima donna made no sense at all: confident in his own (proven) abilities, yes; arrogant so-and-so, no.
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A friend described her as the prima donna of the whole thing.
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A lot of us felt she had become a prima donna.
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He found the conference different from the previous ones where the military element had been the prima donna, occupying the centre of the stage.
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She is, in other words, a typical prima donna.
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The prima donna was normally, but not necessarily, a soprano.
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