first

Betekenis

Adj

1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
2. Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.
3. Of or belonging to a first family.
4. Coming right after the zeroth in things that use zero-based numbering.

Adv

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

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. (colloquial) A first-class honours degree.
6. (colloquial) A first-edition copy of some publication.
7. A fraction whose (integer) denominator ends in the digit 1.

Verb

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

Noun

Time; time granted; respite.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/fɜːst/

Etimologie

From Middle English first, furst, ferst, fyrst, from Old English fyrest, from Proto-West Germanic *furist, from Proto-Germanic *furistaz (“foremost, first”), superlative of Proto-Germanic *fur, *fura, *furi (“before”), from Proto-Indo-European *per-, *pero- (“forward, beyond, around”), equivalent to fore + -est.
Cognate with North Frisian foarste (“first”), Dutch voorste (“foremost, first”), German Fürst (“chief, prince”, literally “first (born)”), Swedish först (“first”), Norwegian Nynorsk fyrst (“first”), Icelandic fyrstur (“first”).
Other cognates include Sanskrit पूर्व (pūrva, “first”) and Russian первый (pervyj).

Sinne

This was the first State Scout headquarters .

Just pick up a first aid kit to restore your health .

This combination of colours are traditional for the national team since their first game .

He became the first Frenchman to win the World Championship .

He was the first bishop of Hong Kong to visit the mainland China .

He first married the late Anita Majhi.

This was also the first commercial flight westward from Juneau .

For the first KdF trips , the German cruise companies mostly chartered older passenger ships .