1. the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed at first base
2. the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving
3. an honours degree of the highest class
4. the first element in a countable series; "the first of the month"
5. the first or highest in an ordering or series; "He wanted to be the first"
6. 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"
7. being the gear producing the lowest drive speed; "use first gear on steep hills"
8. ranking above all others; "was first in her class"; "the foremost figure among marine artists"; "the top graduate"
9. serving to begin; "the beginning canto of the poem"; "the first verse"
10. 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"
11. 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"
12. highest in pitch or chief among parts or voices or instruments or orchestra sections; "first soprano"; "the first violin section"; "played first horn"
13. indicating the beginning unit in a series
14. before anything else; "first we must consider the garter snake"
15. the initial time; "when Felix first saw a garter snake"
16. prominently forward; "he put his best foot foremost"
17. before another in time, space, or importance; "I was here first"; "let''s do this job first"

Similar Words: first base, first gear, low gear, low, first-class honours degree, number one, number 1, beginning, commencement, outset, get-go, start, kickoff, starting time, showtime, offset, foremost, world-class, beginning(a), inaugural, initiative, initiatory, maiden, 1st, firstly, first of all, first off, for the first time

 

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