Definition/Meaning of first

• English - Adjective: first (no comparative, superlative firstmost) (no comparative) Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest . Hancock was first to arrive. The first day of September 2013 was a Sunday. (no comparative) Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest. the first violinist Demosthenes was the first orator of Greece. (no comparative) Of or belonging to a first…
• English - Adverb: first (not comparable) (not comparable) Before anything else; firstly . I plunged nose first into the water. Clean the sink first , before you even think of starting to cook. (not comparable) For the first time. I first witnessed a death when I was nine years old.
• English - Noun: first (countable and uncountable, plural firsts) (uncountable) The person or thing in the first position. He was the first to complete the course. 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.…
• English - Verb: first (third-person singular simple present firsts, present participle firsting, simple past and past participle firsted) (rare, transitive) To propose (a new motion ) in a meeting , which must subsequently be second ed. 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…
• English - Anagrams: frits rifts