first

Definitions

1. Before anything else; firstly.
   not-comparable
2. For the first time.
   not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“Clean⟳ the sink⟳ first, before you even think⟳ of starting to cook⟳.”

“I plunged nose first into the water.”

“That concertina was a wonder⟳ in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.”

“Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become⟳ an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.”

“I first witnessed a death when I was nine years old.”

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