English Dictionary

first

/fɜːst/

noun

(uncountable) The person or thing in the first position. / (uncountable) The first gear of an engine. / (countable) Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.

The first day of school is always exciting.

意味（1）

(uncountable) The person or thing in the first position.

He was the first to complete the course.

意味（2）

(uncountable) The first gear of an engine.

意味（3）

(countable) Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.

This is a first. For once he has nothing to say.

意味（4）

(countable, baseball) first base

There was a close play at first.

意味（5）

(countable, Britain, colloquial) A first-class honours degree.

[Stephen Hawking] […] would go to Cambridge, he said, if they gave him a first, and stay at Oxford if they gave him a second. He got a first.

意味（6）

(countable, colloquial) A first-edition copy of some publication.

意味（7）

(in combination) A fraction whose (integer) denominator ends in the digit 1.

one forty-first of the estate