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firsters

firsters is the plural of firster.

Meaning of firster

Noun

firster (plural firsters)

  1. (in-compounds) A person who advocates the primacy of the named entity (who puts it first).
    • In recent years, “knowledge-first” epistemologists have worried that any analysis of knowledge fails to recognize that knowledge is more fundamental than epistemic analysis. Knowledge, the knowledge-firster contends, should be taken as an epistemic primitive.2019, Branden Fitelson, Rodrigo Borges, Cherie Braden, Themes from Klein: Knowledge, Scepticism, and Justification, Springer, →ISBN, page 5

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What is firsters the plural of?
Firsters is the plural of firster.

Words near firsters in the dictionary

  1. firstcomer
  2. firstcomers
  3. firste
  4. firsted
  5. firster
  6. firsters
  7. firstest
  8. firstfoot
  9. firstfruit
  10. firstfruits
  11. firsthand

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