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Definition of first
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed at first base
- the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving
- an honours degree of the highest class
- the first element in a countable series; "the first of the month"
- the first or highest in an ordering or series; "He wanted to be the first"
- the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her"
- being the gear producing the lowest drive speed; "use first gear on steep hills"
- ranking above all others; "was first in her class"; "the foremost figure among marine artists"; "the top graduate"
- serving to begin; "the beginning canto of the poem"; "the first verse"
- serving to set in motion; "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"
- 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"
- highest in pitch or chief among parts or voices or instruments or orchestra sections; "first soprano"; "the first violin section"; "played first horn"
- indicating the beginning unit in a series
- before anything else; "first we must consider the garter snake"
- the initial time; "when Felix first saw a garter snake"
- prominently forward; "he put his best foot foremost"
- before another in time, space, or importance; "I was here first"; "let''s do this job first"
See Also: early, front(a), original, primary
Hyponyms: double first, former, birth, incipiency, incipience, terminus a quo, starting point, threshold
Part Meronyms: car, auto, automobile, machine, motorcar
Member Meronyms: baseball team
Derivational Morphology: inaugurate, kick off, start, take up, start up, embark on, commence, originate, initiate, begin, lead off, get down, get, start out, set about, set out
| Language Translations: | |||
| Arabic: أول | Armenian: առաջին | ||
| Bosnian: prvi | Breton: kentañ | ||
| Catalan: primer | Danish: den først and først | ||
| Dutch: eerst | Esperanto: unua | ||
| Finnish: ensimmäinen | French: premier | ||
| Frisian: earst | German: erste | ||
| Greek: πρώτος | Hungarian: első | ||
| Ido: unesma | Indonesian: pertama | ||
| Interlingua: prime and primo | Irish: aonú ; céad | ||
| Italian: primo | Japanese: 最初 | ||
| Latin: primus | Macedonian: прв | ||
| Maltese: l-ewwel | Norwegian: først | ||
| Polish: pierwszy | Portuguese: primeiro | ||
| Romanian: prim | Russian: первый | ||
| Slovak: prvý | Slovene: prvi | ||
| Spanish: primero | Swedish: etta and förste | ||
| Telugu: ఒకటవ | Turkish: birinci | ||
| Vietnamese: thứ nhất | Welsh: cyntaf | ||
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