first

Etymology 1
From, , , , from , from , from , superlative of , , , from , , equivalent to.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Other cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
 * Hancock was first to arrive.
 * 1) Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.
 * 2) * 1784: William Jones, The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery, &c., P REFACE
 * T HE favourable reception the Orrery has met with from Perſons of the firſt diſtinction, and from Gentlemen and Ladies in general, has induced me to add to it ſeveral new improvements in order to give it a degree of Perfection; and diſtinguiſh it from others; which by Piracy, or Imitation, may be introduced to the Public.
 * 1) Of or belonging to a first family.
 * 2) Coming right after the zeroth in things that use zero-based numbering.
 * 1) * 1784: William Jones, The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery, &c., P REFACE
 * T HE favourable reception the Orrery has met with from Perſons of the firſt diſtinction, and from Gentlemen and Ladies in general, has induced me to add to it ſeveral new improvements in order to give it a degree of Perfection; and diſtinguiſh it from others; which by Piracy, or Imitation, may be introduced to the Public.
 * 1) Of or belonging to a first family.
 * 2) Coming right after the zeroth in things that use zero-based numbering.
 * 1) Of or belonging to a first family.
 * 2) Coming right after the zeroth in things that use zero-based numbering.
 * 1) Of or belonging to a first family.
 * 2) Coming right after the zeroth in things that use zero-based numbering.
 * 1) Coming right after the zeroth in things that use zero-based numbering.

Adverb

 * 1) Before anything else; firstly.
 * 2) For the first time.
 * 3)  Now.
 * 1) For the first time.
 * 2)  Now.
 * 1) For the first time.
 * 2)  Now.
 * 1)  Now.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:firstly

Noun

 * 1)  The person or thing in the first position.
 * 2)  The first gear of an engine.
 * 3)  Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.
 * 4)  first base
 * 5)  A first-class honours degree.
 * 6)  A first-edition copy of some publication.
 * 7)  A fraction whose (integer) denominator ends in the digit 1.
 * 1)  first base
 * 2)  A first-class honours degree.
 * 3)  A first-edition copy of some publication.
 * 4)  A fraction whose (integer) denominator ends in the digit 1.
 * 1)  A first-edition copy of some publication.
 * 2)  A fraction whose (integer) denominator ends in the digit 1.

Verb

 * 1)  To propose (a new motion) in a meeting, which must subsequently be seconded.

Etymology 2
From, , , from , , , from , , , from ,. Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. See also.

Noun

 * 1)  Time; time granted; respite.

Etymology
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Etymology
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