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firsts

UK/fɜːsts/US/fɝsts/

firsts is the plural of first.

firsts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of first.

Meaning of first

Noun

first (countable and uncountable, plural firsts)

  1. (uncountable) The person or thing in the first position.
    • He was the first to complete the course.
  2. (uncountable) The first gear of an engine.
  3. (countable) Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.
    • This is a first. For once he has nothing to say.
  4. (countable) First base.
    • There was a close play at first.
  5. (UK, colloquial, countable) A first-class honours degree.
    • [Stephen Hawking] […] would go to Cambridge, he said, if they gave him a first, and stay at Oxford if they gave him a second. He got a first.2004, William H. Cropper, Great Physicists, page 454
  6. (colloquial, countable) A first-edition copy of some publication.

See all 16 meanings of first

Phrases with firsts

Questions about firsts

What is firsts the plural of?
Firsts is the plural of first.
How do you pronounce firsts?
Firsts is pronounced /fɜːsts/ (UK).

Words near firsts in the dictionary

  1. firstly
  2. firstmost
  3. FirstName BunchOfNumbers
  4. firstness
  5. firstripe
  6. firsts
  7. firsts among equals
  8. firsts and lasts
  9. firstspace
  10. firth
  11. Firth of Clyde

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Adapted from Wiktionary: firsts (page history and authors); first (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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