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Cardinal: one Ordinal: first Abbreviated ordinal: 1st Latinate ordinal: primary Reverse order ordinal: last Latinate reverse order ordinal: ultimate Adverbial: one time, once Multiplier: onefold Latinate multiplier: single Distributive: singly Germanic collective: onesome Collective of n parts: singlet, singleton Greek or Latinate collective: monad Greek collective prefix: mono- Latinate collective prefix: uni- Fractional: whole Elemental: singlet, singleton Greek prefix: proto- Number of musicians: solo Number of years: year

the R may be dropped even by rhotic speakers, as the cluster /rsʈ/ is harder to pronounce than just /sʈ/.

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Cognate with Scots first (“first”), Dutch voorste (“foremost, first”), vorst (“prince”), German Fürst (“chief, prince”, literally “first (born)”), Limburgish Vürsch (“prince”), Luxembourgish viischt (“anterior; forward”), Vilamovian fiyśt, fjəšt, fjyśt, fjyšt (“prince”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål først (“first”), Faroese and Icelandic fyrstur (“first”), Norwegian Nynorsk fyrst, først (“first”), Swedish först (“first”); also Latin prīnceps (“first, foremost; chief”), Greek παρ’ (par’), παρά (pará, “despite; less”), Mycenaean Greek 𐀞𐀫 (pa-ro, “from”), Albanian parë (“first; chief, main”), Latgalian pyrmais (“first”), Latvian pirmais (“first; foremost”), Lithuanian pirmas (“first; primary”), Bulgarian пъ́рви (pǎ́rvi), пръ́в (prǎ́v, “first”), Czech and Slovak prvý (“first”), Macedonian прв (prv), први (prvi, “first”), Polish piersy, pierwszy, pirszy (“first”), Russian пе́рвый (pérvyj, “first”), Serbo-Croatian пр̑вӣ, pȓvī (“first”), Slovene prvi (“first”), Armenian հարավ (harav, “south”), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬎𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬀 (pa^uruua, “before, first”), Tocharian A pärwat (“first”), Tocharian B parwe (“first”), Sanskrit पूर्व (pūrva, “before”).

first (no comparative, superlative firstmost)Category:English lemmas#FIRST Category:English adjectives#FIRST Category:English entries with incorrect language header#FIRST Category:Pages with entries#FIRST Category:Pages with 4 entries#FIRST

Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
Synonym: maiden

Hancock was first to arrive.Category:English terms with usage examples#FIRST

The first day of September 2013 was a Sunday.Category:English terms with usage examples#FIRST

I was the first runner to reach the finish line, and won the race.Category:English terms with usage examples#FIRST
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
  Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
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- 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist‎, volume 408, number 8847, archived from the original on 19 August 2022:
  The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).
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- 2022, “2023 Laws of Chess”, in FIDE‎, page 21:
  Consequently, in the initial position the white pieces and pawns are placed on the first and second ranks; the black pieces and pawns on the eighth and seventh ranks.
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Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.
Demosthenes was the first orator of Greece.Category:English terms with usage examples#FIRST

the first violinistCategory:English terms with usage examples#FIRST
- 1784: William Jones, The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery, &c., PREFACE
  THE favourable reception the Orrery has met with from Perſons of the firſt diſtinction, and from Gentlemen and Ladies in general, has induced me to add to it ſeveral new improvements in order to give it a degree of Perfection; and diſtinguiſh it from others; which by Piracy, or Imitation, may be introduced to the Public.
- 1880, S. W. Silver, Handbook for Australia & New Zealand, Co, page 146:
  It rose to be the first of pastoral regions, and continued until after the gold discovery to be the land of squatterdom.
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- 1916 September 11, Anne Rittenhouse, “Dress: One-piece Frocks of Satin in Neutral Colors, With Bits of Colored Embroidery”, in The Journal and Tribune, volume 30, number 235, Knoxville, Tenn., page 6:
  The French openings decided that satin gowns, suits, wraps and even hats were to be in first fashion this autumn.
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Of or belonging to a first family.
First CatCategory:English links with redundant target parameters#FIRST; First DaughterCategory:English links with redundant target parameters#FIRST; First Dog; First SonCategory:English links with redundant target parameters#FIRST
Coming right after the zeroth in things that use zero-based numbering.

numeral first — see also 1st

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first (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#FIRST Category:English adverbs#FIRST Category:English uncomparable adverbs#FIRST Category:English entries with incorrect language header#FIRST Category:Pages with entries#FIRST Category:Pages with 4 entries#FIRST

Before anything else; firstly.
Clean the sink first, before you even think of starting to cook.Category:English terms with usage examples#FIRST

I plunged nose first into the water.Category:English terms with usage examples#FIRST
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
  That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.
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- 2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8842, archived from the original on 11 March 2023, page 29:
  Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.
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For the first time.
I first witnessed a death when I was nine years old.Category:English terms with usage examples#FIRST

before anything else

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first (countable and uncountable, plural firsts)Category:English lemmas#FIRST Category:English nouns#FIRST Category:English uncountable nouns#FIRST Category:English countable nouns#FIRST Category:English countable nouns#FIRST Category:English entries with incorrect language header#FIRST Category:Pages with entries#FIRST Category:Pages with 4 entries#FIRST

(uncountable Category:English uncountable nouns#FIRST) The person or thing in the first position.
He was the first to complete the course.Category:English terms with usage examples#FIRST
- 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations‎:
  Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
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(uncountable Category:English uncountable nouns#FIRST) The first gear of an engine.
(countable Category:English countable nouns#FIRST) Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.
This is a first. For once he has nothing to say.Category:English terms with usage examples#FIRST
- 2020, Jim Pace, Should We Fire God?:
  I remember other firsts: how I wussily asked her out the first time, and the first time I told her I loved her.
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(countable Category:English countable nouns#FIRST, baseball Category:en:Baseball#FIRST) First base.
There was a close play at first.Category:English terms with usage examples#FIRST
(countable Category:English countable nouns#FIRST, British Category:British English#FIRST, colloquial Category:English colloquialisms#FIRST) A first-class honours degree.
- 2004, William H. Cropper, Great Physicists, page 454:
  [Stephen Hawking] […] would go to Cambridge, he said, if they gave him a first, and stay at Oxford if they gave him a second. He got a first.
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(countable Category:English countable nouns#FIRST, colloquial Category:English colloquialisms#FIRST) A first-edition copy of some publication.
(in combination) A fraction whose (integer) denominator ends in the digit 1.
one forty-first of the estateCategory:English terms with usage examples#FIRST

person or thing in the first position

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first gear — see first gear

baseball: first base — see first base

UK colloquial: first-class honours degree

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colloquial: a first-edition copy

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fraction of an integer ending in one

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first (third-person singular simple present firsts, present participle firsting, simple past and past participle firsted)Category:English lemmas#FIRST Category:English verbs#FIRST Category:English entries with incorrect language header#FIRST Category:Pages with entries#FIRST Category:Pages with 4 entries#FIRST

(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#FIRST, rare Category:English terms with rare senses#FIRST) To propose (a new motion) in a meeting, which must subsequently be seconded.
- 1828, Diary of Thomas Burton, Esq. Member in the Parliaments of Oliver and Richard Cromwell, from 1656 to 1659: […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 290:
  This motion has been firsted and seconded. I desire to third it.
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- 1920, Rural Manhood, volume 11, page 241, column 1:
  Sure—er—well, the motion was firsted and seconded that we kick ’em out; […]
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- 1922, Grace Livingston Hill, The City of Fire, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, page 139:
  Sure, Brother Severn, I second that motion. If you hadn’t got ahead of me I’d have firsted it myself.
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Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, or noun first

From Middle English Category:English terms inherited from Middle English#FIRST Category:English terms derived from Middle English#FIRST first, furst, fyrst, from Old English Category:English terms inherited from Old English#FIRST Category:English terms derived from Old English#FIRST fyrst, fierst, first (“period, space of time, time, respite, truce”), from Proto-Germanic Category:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#FIRST Category:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#FIRST *frestaz, *fristiz, *frestą (“date, appointed time”), from Proto-Indo-European Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#FIRST *pres-, *per- (“forward, forth, over, beyond”). Cognate with North Frisian ferst, frest (“period, time”), German Frist (“period, deadline, term”), Swedish frist (“deadline, respite, reprieve, time-limit”), Icelandic frestur (“period”). See also frist.

first (plural firsts)Category:English lemmas#FIRST Category:English nouns#FIRST Category:English countable nouns#FIRST Category:English entries with incorrect language header#FIRST Category:Pages with entries#FIRST Category:Pages with 4 entries#FIRST

“first”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

↑ Dobson, E[ric] J. (1957), English pronunciation 1500-1700‎, second edition, volume II: Phonology, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1968, →OCLC, § 82, page 572.

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Middle English

From Old English Category:Middle English terms inherited from Old English#FIRST Category:Middle English terms derived from Old English#FIRST fyrest, from Proto-West Germanic Category:Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#FIRST Category:Middle English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#FIRST *furist, from Proto-Germanic Category:Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#FIRST Category:Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#FIRST *furistaz.

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Old English

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alternative form of fierst

Scots

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Cardinal: ane Attributive: ae Ordinal: first

Inherited from Middle English Category:Scots terms inherited from Middle English#FIRST Category:Scots terms derived from Middle English#FIRST first, from Old English Category:Scots terms inherited from Old English#FIRST Category:Scots terms derived from Old English#FIRST fyrest, from Proto-West Germanic Category:Scots terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#FIRST Category:Scots terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#FIRST *furist, from Proto-Germanic Category:Scots terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#FIRST Category:Scots terms derived from Proto-Germanic#FIRST *furistaz.

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[1] Dobson, E[ric] J. (1957), English pronunciation 1500-1700‎, second edition, volume II: Phonology, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1968, →OCLC, § 82, page 572.

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