| 单词 | first-comer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfirst-comer first-comer n. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [noun] > one who goes first or predecessor ancestorc1300 foreganger1340 before-goerc1384 antecessora1387 predecessora1387 oldersc1450 precessor1454 forn-goer1483 before-gangerc1520 Adam1553 foregoer1556 preventer1598 forerunnera1616 decessor1647 first-comer1690 precursor1792 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iv. xix. 360 'Tis not strange, that the Mind should..render it self to the first Comer. 1732 H. Baker & J. Miller tr. Molière Misanthrope ii. i. 51 in Sel. Comedies VI Your Humour, Madam, opens too easy an Access in your Heart to the First-comer. a1861 T. Winthrop Canoe & Saddle (1863) xiii. 293 There was the sutler's shop near the shore, and, grouped about it, tents of the first-comers of the overland emigration. 1868 J. R. Lowell Shakespeare Once More in N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 640 The privilege which only first-comers enjoy. 1880 Libr. Universal Knowl. X. 368 The foundling named by the first-comer. 2009 A. S. Byatt Children's Bk. (2010) iv. 40 The firstcomers..were the Russian anarchists. < as lemmas |
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