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English adjective: first | |||
| 1. | first preceding all others in time or space or degree | ||
| Samples | The first house on the right. The first day of spring. His first political race. Her first baby. The first time. The first meetings of the new party. The first phase of his training. | ||
| Similar | archetypal, archetypical, basic, eldest, first-year, firstborn, freshman, initial, introductory, original, premier, premier, premiere, prime, prime, prototypal, prototypic, prototypical | ||
| See also | early, front, original, primary | ||
| Antonyms | last | ||
| 2. | first indicating the beginning unit in a series | ||
| Synonyms | 1st | ||
| Similar | ordinal | ||
| Antonyms | cardinal | ||
| 3. | first serving to set in motion | ||
| Samples | The magazine's inaugural issue. The initiative phase in the negotiations. An initiatory step toward a treaty. His first (or maiden) speech in Congress. The liner's maiden voyage. | ||
| Synonyms | inaugural, initiative, initiatory, maiden | ||
| Similar | opening | ||
| Antonyms | closing | ||
| 4. | first serving to begin | ||
| Samples | The beginning canto of the poem. The first verse. | ||
| Synonyms | beginning | ||
| Similar | opening | ||
| Antonyms | closing | ||
| 5. | first ranking above all others | ||
| Samples | Was first in her class. The foremost figure among marine artists. The top graduate. | ||
| Synonyms | foremost, world-class | ||
| Similar | best | ||
| Antonyms | worst | ||
| 6. | first highest in pitch or chief among parts or voices or instruments or orchestra sections | ||
| Samples | First soprano. The first violin section. Played first horn. | ||
| Domain category | music | ||
| Antonyms | second | ||
English noun: first | |||
| 1. | first the first or highest in an ordering or series | ||
| Samples | He wanted to be the first. | ||
| Synonyms | number one | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | rank | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | former | ||
| 2. | first (quantity) the first element in a countable series | ||
| Samples | The first of the month. | ||
| Synonyms | number 1, number one | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | no., ordinal, ordinal number | ||
| 3. | first (time) the time at which something is supposed to begin | ||
| Samples | They got an early start. She knew from the get-go that he was the man for her. | ||
| Synonyms | beginning, commencement, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | point, point in time | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | birth, incipience, incipiency, starting point, terminus a quo, threshold | ||
| Antonyms | end, ending, middle | ||
| 4. | first (act) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed at first of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate) | ||
| Synonyms | first base | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | position | ||
| Member meronym | baseball team | ||
| 5. | first (communication) an honours degree of the highest class | ||
| Synonyms | first-class honours degree | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | honours, honours degree | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | double first | ||
| Domain region | Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | ||
| 6. | first (artifact) the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving | ||
| Synonyms | first gear, low, low gear | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | gear, gear mechanism | ||
| Part meronym | auto, automobile, car, machine, motorcar | ||
English adverb: first | |||
| 1. | first before anything else | ||
| Samples | First we must consider the garter snake. | ||
| Synonyms | first of all, first off, firstly, foremost | ||
| 2. | first the initial time | ||
| Samples | When Felix first saw a garter snake. | ||
| Synonyms | for the first time | ||
| 3. | first before another in time, space, or importance | ||
| Samples | I was here first. Let's do this job first. | ||
| 4. | first prominently forward | ||
| Samples | He put his best foot foremost. | ||
| Synonyms | foremost | ||
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