FIRST HAND meaning: Directly experienced or personally observed - OneLook

Usually means: Directly experienced or personally observed.

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General (15 matching dictionaries)

first-hand, first hand: Collins English Dictionary
First-Hand, First-hand, first-hand: Wordnik
first-hand: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
first-hand, first hand: Wiktionary
First-hand, first-hand, first hand: Dictionary.com
first-hand: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
First Hand (album), First hand: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
First-hand: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
first-hand: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
First-hand: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
first-hand: FreeDictionary.org
first-hand: TheFreeDictionary.com
first hand: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)

First hand: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

FIRST HAND, FIRST HAND, FIRST HAND: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
first hand: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (First hand)

▸ adjective: Alternative spelling of firsthand [Direct, without intermediate stages.]

Similar:

very well, very good, far out, bought and paid for, frontside, firsthand, straight from the horse's mouth, well met, one hundred percent, each way, more...

Opposite:

secondhand, indirect, hearsay, mediated, derivative

Types:

eyewitness, primary, firsthand, more...

Phrases:

at first hand, first hand experience, first hand knowledge, first hand account, more...

Adjectives:

red-faced, flat out, stay at home, very good, writ small, all the same, next level, every second, each way, frontside, caught stealing

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Similar:

very well, very good, far out, bought and paid for, frontside, firsthand, straight from the horse's mouth, well met, one hundred percent, each way, more...

Opposite:

secondhand, indirect, hearsay, mediated, derivative

Types:

eyewitness, primary, firsthand, more...

Phrases:

at first hand, first hand experience, first hand knowledge, first hand account, more...

Adjectives:

red-faced, flat out, stay at home, very good, writ small, all the same, next level, every second, each way, frontside, caught stealing

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