first in Sindhi سنڌي
first in Telugu తెలుగు
first in English
- first⇄adj. 1a. coming before all others; before anything else.
Ex. Sunday is the first day of the week. First is used as the ordinal of one, in which it may be written 1st.
(SYN) earliest, original, initial, chief, foremost, principal, leading. - first⇄adv. 1. before all others; before anything else.
Ex. We eat first and then feed the cat. The good die first (Wordsworth).
2. before some other thing or event.
Ex. First bring me the chalk.
3. for the first time.
Ex. When f - first⇄expr. at (the) first, in the beginning.
Ex. At first he did not like school. - first⇄expr. first and last, taking all together.
Ex. [In] the Bay of Campeachy ... I lived first and last about 3 years (William Dampier). - first⇄expr. first off, in the first place.
Ex. Men of science ... no longer admit first off what simple good sense shows to us (Nation). - first⇄expr. first or last, at one time or another; sooner or later.
Ex. All are fools and lovers first or last (John Dryden). - first⇄expr. firsts, articles of the best quality.
Ex. The ""firsts"" or best grains, and the ""seconds"" or poorer grains, were put into separate sacks (Chase and Clow). - first⇄expr. from first to last, from beginning to end.
Ex. Mr. Gladstone was ... in his place from first to last (Strand Magazine). - first⇄expr. from the first, since the beginning.
Ex. Their practice, from the first, is ill grounded (Henry Bracken). - first⇄expr. of the first water. See under water.
- first⇄first, adjective, adverb, noun.
- first⇄noun 1. a person, thing, or place that comes before all others; first number or member of a series.
Ex. We were the first to get here. Boswell is the first of biographers (Macaulay).
2. the winning position in a race or contest.
3. th