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Adjective: first furst- Preceding all others in time or space or degree
"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" - Indicating the beginning unit in a series
- 1st - Serving to set in motion
"his first (or maiden) speech in Congress"
- inaugural, initiative, initiatory, maiden - Serving to begin
"the first verse"
- beginning - Ranking above all others
"was first in her class"
- foremost, world-class, world-beating - Highest in pitch or chief among parts or voices or instruments or orchestra sections
"first soprano"; "the first violin section"; "played first horn"
Adverb: first furst- Before anything else
"first we must consider the garter snake"
- firstly, foremost, first of all, first off - The initial time
"when Felix first saw a garter snake"
- for the first time - Before another in time, space, or importance
"I was here first"; "let's do this job first" - Prominently forward
- foremost
Noun: first furst- The first or highest in an ordering or series
"He wanted to be the first"
- number one - The first element in a countable series
"the first of the month"
- number one, number 1 - The time at which something is supposed to begin
- beginning, commencement, outset, get-go, start, kickoff, starting time, showtime, offset - 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)
- first base - [Brit] An honours degree of the highest class
- first-class honours degree [Brit, Cdn], first-class honors degree [US] - The lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving
- first gear, low gear, low
Derived forms: firsts See also: archetypal, archetypical, basic, best, early, eldest, firstborn, first-year, freshman [N. Amer], front, initial, introductory, opening, ordinal, original, premier, premiere, primary, prime, prototypal, prototypic, prototypical Type of: gear, gear mechanism, honors [US], honours [Brit, Cdn], honours degree [Brit, Cdn], no., ordinal, ordinal number, point, point in time, position, rank Antonym: last, second Part of: auto, automobile, baseball team, car, machine, motorcar Encyclopedia: First First, Break All the Rules First, do no harm |