primer coat

1. 1.

   the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface

   Synonymsflat coatgroundprimerprimingpriming coatundercoat

   Broadercoat of paint

   Narrowercouch

Questions about primer coat

What does primer coat mean?

primer coat means "the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface".

What is another word for primer coat?

Close synonyms include flat coat, ground, primer, priming, priming coat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is primer coat a common word?

primer coat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.