Word Finder - first

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The person or thing in the first position.

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He was the first to complete the course.

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The first gear of an engine.

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Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.

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This is a first. For once he has nothing to say.

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First base

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There was a close play at first.

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A first-class honours degree.

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A first-edition copy of some publication.

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A fraction of an integer ending in one.

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one forty-first of the estate

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

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I was the first runner to reach the finish line, and won the race.

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

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Demosthenes was the first orator of Greece.

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Before anything else; firstly.

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

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For the first time;

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

It was the first money that he had ever had.

First it was the inheritance thing.

He was the first great American painter.

The first cars were called "horseless carriages."

Still, it was her first car and one with memories packed into it.

First of all, it will keep you safe.

First, many things in the physical world that we think of as scarce are not really scarce, just presently beyond our ability to capture.

The next morning she woke to the first ray of light through the window.

First, nutrition is a very primitive science.

First, it is only useful for factors that are immediately bad for you, not factors that will kill you in ten years.

The first is empathy.

But during the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out.

Maybe that was why he was the first to notice when she developed a fever.

I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.

I wasn't the one who wanted to come here in the first place.

First are the inefficiencies in the natural processes of agriculture.

It was the first time she didn't blush.

The first raindrop slammed into the window so hard that she instinctively recoiled.

We shopped for our first car together.

At first his mother tried to answer all his questions.

In 1736, Claudius Aymand performed the first successful appendectomy on an eleven-year-old boy.

First, more people need them.

In the first ten years of attempting to make better hybrids, Borlaug's group made more than six thousand crossings of wheat.

Man wanted a home, a place of warmth, or comfort, first of warmth, then the warmth of the affections.

With these words she greeted Prince Vasili Kuragin, a man of high rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception.

Which came first, the recluse or the loneliness?

First, this future farm I describe is nothing like what I go out of my way to avoid today.

At first it was still a game.

First, imagine all the jobs they could do inside us.

Why didn't she think of that first?

That night, for the first time in more than a week, she tossed and turned in the bed, her sleep interrupted by memories of her family.

First I'd have to find a man before I could find a new one.

For the first time she thought about the fact that he had no commitment to them at all, yet he had risked his life for them.

Yeah, well she probably never took a whip to your father, but there's always a first time, Anyway, I guess she was pretty worked up.

I never meant to push myself on you in the first place.

Maybe a housekeeper wasn't what he had planned on hiring in the first place.

But after the first time, I should have known.

You're the one who told me I shouldn't come out here in the first place.

He wasn't the first man she had kissed and she had never considered herself promiscuous with other men.

Never the less he and Martha have four married years under their belts and are expecting their first child.

I was nearly as nervous as my first call.

Quinn was the first to vocalize what dominated all our minds like a walk up the gallows steps.

The break-in was only hours old and we knew the exact location from Howie's first visit.

The first one that passes the place where the Princess sits shall be named the winner.

Then he said to the first man, "Have you a son?"

In the First World War, we learned to treat wounds by washing them with a germicide.

First, think of energy as the capacity to do work.

First, I would contend that the size of this problem is substantially smaller than many people would guess.

First, it would be tempting to assume the person hauling manure can only do that, and if that job disappeared he would have no useful skills.

But it is my belief that many more people will choose the first choice.