English Dictionary

first

IPA（発音記号）

/fɜːst/

名詞

不可算名詞 可算名詞 イギリス英語 口語 複合語中

(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.

日本語の意味

第一位の人または物（例：順位のトップに立つもの） / 一速（エンジンの一速ギヤ） / これまでに起こったことのない出来事、新たな事象

The first led the procession with quiet confidence.

先頭の人物は落ち着いた自信を持って行列を先導した。

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

firsts （ plural ）