first
IPA: fˈɝst
noun
- (uncountable) The person or thing in the first position.
- (uncountable) The first gear of an engine.
- (countable) Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.
- (countable, baseball) first base
- (countable, Britain, colloquial) A first-class honours degree.
- (countable, colloquial) A first-edition copy of some publication.
- (in combination) A fraction whose (integer) denominator ends in the digit 1.
- (obsolete) Time; time granted; respite.
- A surname.
verb
- (rare) To propose (a new motion) in a meeting, which must subsequently be seconded.
adjective
- Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
- Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.
- Of or belonging to a first family.
- Coming right after the zeroth in things that use zero-based numbering.
adverb
- Before anything else; firstly.
- For the first time.
- (Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, nonstandard) Now.
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Examples of "first" in Sentences
- The cockpit was at the front of the first bulkhead.
- Her first fiance was murdered in the early eighties.
- After swimming they settle, and begin the first molt.
- The festival begins on the first Thursday of every June.
- Construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad begins.
- The first section of the piece begins with a solo in the clarinet.
- The first bomb landed among the horsemen in front of the carriage.
- It shows the beginnings of a counterfeit Christianity in the first century.
- The pistol was depicted on the front cover of the first edition of the novel.
- Callan connected the beginning of the first coil to the beginning of the second.
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