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first

/fɝst/ · 5 letters · 5 distinct letters

  1. adjective

    preceding all others in time or space or degree

    the first house on the right

  2. adjective

    indicating the beginning unit in a series

  3. adverb

    before anything else

    first we must consider the garter snake

  4. adverb

    the initial time

    when Felix first saw a garter snake

  5. noun

    the first or highest in an ordering or series

    He wanted to be the first

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