A device using gunpowder and other chemicals which, when lit, emits a combination of coloured flames, sparks, whistles or bangs, and sometimes made to rocket high into the sky before exploding, used for entertainment or celebration.

(UK, business) A business partnership; the name under which it trades. / (business, economics) A business enterprise, however organized.

Steadfast, secure, solid (in position) / Fixed (in opinion). / Insistent upon something, not accepting dissent. / Durable, rigid (material state)

(transitive) To make firm or strong; fix securely. / (transitive) To make compact or resistant to pressure; solidify. / (intransitive) To become firm; stabilise.

(now rare) firmly, steadily

(military) Fire whose direction is not perpendicular to the line fired at.

(formal) In the first place; before anything else; first.

plural of first woman

prima donna / The biblical Eve

Continental land, as distinguished from islands. / (colloquial) Land, as opposed to water or air.