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first-generation

first-generation adjective: of or relating to an immigrant or their family.

Adjective

first-generation (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to an immigrant or their family.
    • Trying to help a high school senior get into his dream school, Laurie Kopp Weingarten called the college to emphasize that the boy should be able to lay claim to the latest, and fuzziest, of all admissions hooks: being a first-generation student.2017 March 11, Rochelle Sharpe, “Are You First Gen? Depends on Who’s Asking”, in The New York Times
  2. Of or relating to the initial version of a class of products.

Questions about first-generation

What does first-generation mean?
First-generation means of or relating to an immigrant or their family.
What part of speech is first-generation?
First-generation is an adjective.

Words near first-generation in the dictionary

  1. first-feet
  2. first-fit
  3. first-foot
  4. first-footing
  5. first-foots
  6. first-generation
  7. first-half
  8. first-hand
  9. first-in first-out
  10. first-in, first-out
  11. first-in-first-out

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