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  • 51first — fÉœrst /fɜːst n. person or thing which is first; beginning; first gear, low gear; first place (in a race or competition); highest grade in an examination; one who received this grade (British) adj. being ahead of all others; initial, beginning… …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 52first — adj 1. premiere, initial, initiative, opening; antecedent, anterior, preceding, precedent, in the front; primary, prime, primal; earliest, pristine, primeval, primigenial; elementary, fundamental, rudimentary, rudimental; original, incipient,… …

    A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • 53First ZH — Illnau Effretikon Basisdaten Kanton: Zürich Bezirk: Pfäffikon …

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  • 54First — Her. Used as in of the first , indicating a similarity with the *tincture first mentioned in a *blazon …

    Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases

  • 55first — [OE] As its st ending suggests, first was originally a superlative form. Its distant ancestor was Indo European *pro, denoting ‘before, in front’ (amongst whose other descendants to have reached English are prime and the prefix proto ). Its… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 56-first — [[t] fɜ͟ː(r)st[/t]] COMB in ADV: ADV after v first combines with nouns like head and feet to indicate that someone moves with the part that is mentioned pointing in the direction in which they are moving. He overbalanced and fell head first …

    English dictionary

  • 57first up — informal first of all. → first …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 58first — I. a. 1. Foremost, leading. 2. Chief, highest, principal, capital. 3. Earliest. 4. Primary, elementary, rudimentary. 5. Primitive, primeval, pristine. II. ad. In the first place, at the outset, in the beginning, first and foremost, before… …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 59first — See first, firstly, secondly …

    Dictionary of problem words and expressions

  • 60FIRST — ● ►en sg. m. ►SECU Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams. Organisme de coordination des CERT et autres équipes de réaction aux incidents , créé en 1990. http://www.first.org …

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