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first
English
- 🔊 ranking above all others“was first in her class”
- 🔊 preceding all others in time or space or degree“the first house on the right”
- 🔊 highest in pitch or chief among parts or voices or instruments or orchestra sections“first soprano”
- 🔊 indicating the beginning unit in a series
- 🔊 serving to begin“the beginning canto of the poem”
- 🔊 serving to set in motion“the magazine's inaugural issue”
- 🔊 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 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)
- 🔊 the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle
- 🔊 the time at which something is supposed to begin“they got an early start”
- 🔊 before anything else“first we must consider the garter snake”
- 🔊 the initial time“when Felix first saw a garter snake”
- 🔊 before another in time, space, or importance“I was here first”
- 🔊 prominently forward“he put his best foot foremost”
Spanish
- 🔊 de primero first
- 🔊 primario first
- 🔊 primo first
- 🔊 primero first, first up