First
//fɜːst//
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The word "first" can be used as noun, adjective, adverb, adjective, adverb, verb and proper noun.
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AI-first First Cat First Citizen First French Empire First Guy First Happy Time First Husband First Island Chain First Lady First Lord First Man First Month First Nation First Nations First Pooch First Presidency First Sea Lord First Son First day Firstspace Healey's first law of holes Newton's first law airman first class at first at first bluff at first blush at first glance at first hand at first sight at the first at the first brunt blink first book of first entry breadth-first search cast the first stone ceremonial first pitch chief petty officer first class cloud-first code-first come first court of first instance database-first dead first depth-first search deputy first minister director of first impressions double first double first cousin eighty-first error of the first kind face first facefirst feet first feet-first feetfirst fifty-first fifty-first state first aid first aid kit first among equals first and foremost first and last first angle projection first annual first arch syndrome first article first baseman first basing first best first bite free first blood first call first catch your hare first cause first chair first choice first city first class first class match first come first served first come, first served first conditional first contact first cosmic velocity first cousin first cousin once removed first cousin thrice removed first cousin twice removed first cranial nerve first cross-cousin first day cover first death first declension first derivative first dibs first digit first division first down first e-rights first edition first eleven first estate first exit time first fiddle first fifteen first finger first five-eighth first flight first flight cover first floor first flush first folio first footing first freedom rights first fruits first fundamental form first gear first gentleman first grade first grader first half first hand first hit time first imperative first impression first in first out first inversion first isomorphism theorem first language first leg first lieutenant first light first loser first love first mate first mile first milk first minister first mover first name first night first normal form first notice day first of all first of never first off first officer first olive out of the bottle first olive out of the jar first order of the day first order stream first palatalization first party first passage time first past the post first person first philosophy first pick first point of Aries first point of Cancer first point of Capricorn first point of Libra first port of call first position first principle first principles first quarter first rain first rate first reader first reading first receiver first responder first return time first sale doctrine first school first sergeant first session first shift first sleep first slip first strike first string first success distribution first team first thing first things first first time first to last first touch first truth first unit first up first violin first violinist first watch first water first woman first world problem first year first-aid box first-aid kit first-aider first-born first-chance exception first-chop first-class first-class citizen first-class continuation first-class entity first-class object first-class value first-come-first-served first-day cover first-degree first-degree burn first-degree murder first-degree relative first-ever first-fit first-foot first-footing first-generation first-half first-hand first-line first-mover disadvantage first-nighter first-of-its-kind first-order first-order hold first-order logic first-order spectrum first-party first-party cookie first-party logistics first-passage time first-person first-person dual first-person plural first-person shooter first-person singular first-personal first-rate first-run first-sale doctrine first-string first-stringer first-teamer first-time first-time buyer first-timer first-wave feminism first-waver first-year firstborn firstcomer firster firstfruit firsthand firsthood firstie firstling firstly firstness firstripe forty-first get to first base half first cousin half-first cousin have the first idea head first head-first headfirst health is your first wealth if at first you don't succeed in the first instance in the first place interfirst ladies first last in first out let he who is without sin cast the first stone let him that is without sin cast the first stone let him who is without sin cast the first stone local-first love at first sight make the first move mobile-first model-first murder in the first degree ninety-first no battle plan survives first contact with the enemy no plan survives first contact with the enemy nose-first not have the first idea not if I see you first not one's first rodeo of the first water on a first-name basis on first-name terms party of the first part people-first language perpetual motion machine of the first kind petty officer first class pinch and a punch for the first of the month play first fiddle private first class right of first refusal safety first sergeant first class seventy-first ship of the line ensign first class ship-of-the-line ensign first class shoot first and ask questions later single-first cousin sixty-first splendid first strike standfirst tender-first the first the first step is always the hardest the first turn of the screw pays all debts there's a first time for everything thirty-first time first to a first approximation touch-first twenty-first webfirst what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive what was your first clue who's on first women and children first
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ahead ahead everyone before before others before second before twice beginning blue blue ribbon but but one cardinal cardinal number class class rank copy dominance earliest early edition everyone first base first class first gear firstly front gold gold medal gold medals honours degree medal medals number number one one ordering ordinal ordinal number ordinal one original others place placement placing position position one primary prime prime dominance primus inter pares rank ranking respite ribbon second second third sequence sequence one something started started one starting third time twice two under under two winner winning
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