first

first meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

Examples of first in a sentence

• I was the first runner to reach the finish line, and won the race.
• Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company...
• The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2022:
• Consequently, in the initial position the white pieces and pawns are placed on the first and second ranks; the black pieces and pawns on the eighth and seventh ranks.2022, “2023 Laws of Chess”, in FIDE, page 21:
• It rose to be the first of pastoral regions, and continued until after the gold discovery to be the land of squatterdom.1880, S. W. Silver, Handbook for Australia & New Zealand, Co, page 146:

All 40 example sentences with first

Synonyms of first

• maiden
• prime

Forms of first

Plural of first: firsts

Origin of first

From Middle English first, furst, ferst, fyrst, from Old English fyrest, from Proto-West Germanic *furist, from Proto-Germanic *furistaz (“first, foremost”), superlative of Proto-Germanic *furai, *furi (“before”), from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- (“before”), from *per- (“before; first”), equivalent to fore + -est. Cognates Cognate with Scots first (“first”), Dutch voorste (“foremost, first”), vorst (“prince”), German Fürst (“chief, prince”, literally “first (born)”), Limburgish Vürsch (“prince”), Luxembourgish viischt (“anterior; forward”), Vilamovian fiyśt, fjəšt, fjyśt, fjyšt (“prince”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål først (“first”), Faroese and Icelandic fyrstur (“first”), Norwegian Nynorsk fyrst, først (“first”), Swedish först (“first”); also Latin prīnceps (“first, foremost; chief”), Greek παρ’ (par’), παρά (pará, “despite; less”), Mycenaean Greek 𐀞𐀫 (pa-ro, “from”), Albanian parë (“first; chief, main”), Latgalian pyrmais (“first”), Latvian pirmais (“first; foremost”), Lithuanian pirmas (“first; primary”), Bulgarian пъ́рви (pắrvi), пръ́в (prắv, “first”), Czech and Slovak prvý (“first”), Macedonian прв (prv), први (prvi, “first”), Polish piersy, pierwszy, pirszy (“first”)...

From Middle English first, furst, fyrst, from Old English fyrst, fierst, first (“period, space of time, time, respite, truce”), from Proto-Germanic *frestaz, *fristiz, *frestą (“date, appointed time”), from Proto-Indo-European *pres-, *per- (“forward, forth, over, beyond”). Cognate with North Frisian ferst, frest (“period, time”), German Frist (“period, deadline, term”), Swedish frist (“deadline, respite, reprieve, time-limit”), Icelandic frestur (“period”). See also frist.

* As a German surname, variant of Fürst, Furst. * As a Jewish surname, from Yiddish פֿירשט (firsht, “prince”), a rendition of the above. * As a Serbo-Croatian and Slovene, from the noun firšt (“prince”), a loanword from German and thus related to the above.

Words formed from first

• AI-first
• airman first class
• at first
• at first bluff
• at first blush
• at first glance
• at first hand
• at first sight
• at the first
• at the first brunt
• blink first
• book of first entry
• breadth-first search
• cast the first stone
• ceremonial first pitch
• chief petty officer first class
• cloud-first
• code-first
• come first
• court of first instance
• database-first
• dead first
• depth-first search
• deputy first minister
• director of first impressions
• double first
• double first cousin
• eighty-first
• error of the first kind
• facefirst
• face first
• feetfirst
• feet first
• feet-first
• fifty-first
• fifty-first state
• first aid
• first-aid box
• first-aider
• first aid kit
• first-aid kit
• first among equals
• first and foremost
• first and last
• first angle projection
• first annual
• first arch syndrome
• first article
• first baseman
• first basing
• first best
• first bite free
• first blood
• firstborn
• first-born
• first call
• First Cat
• first catch your hare
• first cause
• first chair

Related words

• primary
• primus inter pares
• for
• fore

Phrases with first

• first up
• first XI
• first XV
• first day
• First Dog
• First Guy
• first leg
• First Man
• First Men
• first off
• First Son
• First War

Words that rhyme with first

• burst
• thirst
• worst
• erst
• athirst
• 1st
• aburst
• accurst
• becursed
• blink first
• cursed
• curst

Questions about first

What does first mean?

First means preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.

What is first in Hindi?

First in Hindi is पहला (pahlā), प्रथम (pratham), पहिला (pahilā). See First meaning in Hindi.

How do you use first in a sentence?

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

What part of speech is first?

First can be an adjective, an adverb, a noun or a verb.

How do you pronounce first?

First is pronounced /fɜːst/ (UK).