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Definitions from Wiktionary (First)

adjective:  Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
adjective:  Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.
adjective:  Of or belonging to a first family.
adjective:  Coming right after the zeroth in things that use zero-based numbering.
adverb:  Before anything else; firstly.
adverb:  For the first time.
adverb:  (Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, nonstandard) Now.
noun:  (uncountable) The person or thing in the first position.
noun:  (uncountable) The first gear of an engine.
noun:  (countable) Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.
noun:  (countable, baseball) first base
noun:  (countable, British, colloquial) A first-class honours degree.
noun:  (countable, colloquial) A first-edition copy of some publication.
noun:  (in combination) A fraction whose (integer) denominator ends in the digit 1.
verb:  (rare) To propose (a new motion) in a meeting, which must subsequently be seconded.
noun:  (obsolete) Time; time granted; respite.
noun:  A surname.
▸ Also see first


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