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first

English

  1. 🔊 ranking above all others
    “was first in her class”
  2. 🔊 preceding all others in time or space or degree
    “the first house on the right”
  3. 🔊 highest in pitch or chief among parts or voices or instruments or orchestra sections
    “first soprano”
  4. 🔊 indicating the beginning unit in a series
  5. 🔊 serving to begin
    “the beginning canto of the poem”
  6. 🔊 serving to set in motion
    “the magazine's inaugural issue”
  7. 🔊 an honours degree of the highest class
  8. 🔊 the first element in a countable series
    “the first of the month”
  9. 🔊 the first or highest in an ordering or series
    “He wanted to be the first”
  10. 🔊 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)
  11. 🔊 the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle
  12. 🔊 the time at which something is supposed to begin
    “they got an early start”
  13. 🔊 before anything else
    “first we must consider the garter snake”
  14. 🔊 the initial time
    “when Felix first saw a garter snake”
  15. 🔊 before another in time, space, or importance
    “I was here first”
  16. 🔊 prominently forward
    “he put his best foot foremost”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 de primero first
  2. 🔊 primario first
  3. 🔊 primo first
  4. 🔊 primero first, first up

Similar words

first base first gear low gear low first-class honours degree number one number 1 number one beginning commencement outset get-go start kickoff starting time showtime offset foremost world-class beginning(a) inaugural initiative initiatory maiden