first

About 758.15 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.

   Hancock was first to arrive.

2. adjective Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.

   Demosthenes was the first orator of Greece.

3. adjective Of or belonging to a first family.

   First Cat; First Daughter; First Dog; First Son

4. adjective Coming right after the zeroth in things that use zero-based numbering.
5. adverb Before anything else; firstly.

   Clean the sink first, before you even think of starting to cook.

6. adverb For the first time.

   I first witnessed a death when I was nine years old.

7. noun The person or thing in the first position.

   He was the first to complete the course.

8. noun The first gear of an engine.

Similar words

original initial number one first of all first off firstly basic prime premier introductory

Often followed by

time of to and place two step year in

Word family

1st firsts