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How to pronounce “first”
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Pronunciation guide for first
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of first with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Jim Salzman & Michael Heller
to frame the first half of our talk today.
- Definition summary
- Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce first
Jim Salzman & Michael Heller
to frame the first half of our talk today.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “first”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
- Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.
- Of or belonging to a first family.
- Coming right after the zeroth in things that use zero-based numbering.
- [Adverb]
- Before anything else; firstly.
- For the first time.
- [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.
- (countable, baseball) First base.
- (countable, British, colloquial) A first-class honours degree.
- (countable, colloquial) A first-edition copy of some publication.
- (in combination) A fraction whose (integer) denominator ends in the digit 1.
- [Verb]
- (transitive, rare) To propose (a new motion) in a meeting, which must subsequently be seconded.
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