first

1st

Meaning

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.

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initial

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first of all

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at the beginning

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in the first place

previously

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highest

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earliest

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pre-eminent

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in the beginning

begin with

head

originally

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early

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greatest

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preliminary

inaugural

opening

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from the beginning

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for the first time

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immediately

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start with

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in the front

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preferably

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oldest

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Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɜːst/

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).