Definition of first-hand in English:
first-hand
adjective & adverbˌfəːstˈhand
(of information or experience) from the original source or personal experience; direct.
as adjective first-hand accounts of activities behind the enemy lines
as adverb data which is obtained first-hand from customers
Example sentencesExamples
- When someone comes along with first-hand knowledge of the topic in hand it just confuses everyone.
- At their best, they provide an authentic new source of first-hand information.
- Poets who perform their work involve themselves in a first-hand experience.
- The idea, clearly, is to make it easy for students to see the first-hand evidence of textual problems for themselves.
- Apart from military personnel, it is only our oldest generation that has had first-hand experience of life in a war zone.
- Journalists from all over China have gone to the small town to get first-hand information about the case.
- Numerous poets and playwrights had first-hand experience of the wars.
- An increasing number of Australians understand this from first-hand experience.
- Having knowledge and first-hand experience can really feed that imagination.
- Victims of stalking have first-hand knowledge of various techniques that can be used to terrorise or control others.
- He has captured the first-hand accounts of many people whose stories would probably otherwise have been lost to us.
- His thorough and first-hand knowledge of war could be seen clearly in these short stories.
- I also have first-hand experience of the repercussions that follow when you make a stand against sectarianism.
- Probably not people who have my first-hand experience of a similar situation.
- That being said, I still think the best marketing stories come from personal, first-hand experience.
- He heard a range of first-hand accounts of people's experiences of crime.
- How can anyone objectively criticise an event without having first-hand knowledge of it?
- He was also able to draw on first-hand knowledge of the caprices of the writing life.
Synonyms
direct, immediate, personal, unmediated, hands-on, experiential, empirical, from the original source