Synonyms of the word

first

• adj. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
• adj. Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.
• adv. Before anything else; firstly.
• n. (uncountable) The person or thing in the first position.
• n. (uncountable) The first gear of an engine.
• n. (countable) Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.
• n. (countable, baseball) first base.
• n. (countable, Britain, colloquial) A first-class honours degree.
• n. (countable, colloquial) A first-edition copy of some publication.
• n. A fraction of an integer ending in one.
• n. (obsolete) Time; time granted; respite.

archetypal

• adj. Of or pertaining to an archetype.

archetypical

• adj. In the way of an archetype, in the way of an idealized model or most representative.

basic

• adj. Necessary, essential for life or some process.
• adj. Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional.
• adj. (chemistry) Of or pertaining to a base; having a pH greater than 7.
• adj. (slang) Unremarkable or uninteresting; boring; uncool.
• n. A necessary commodity, a staple requirement.
• n. An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge.
• n. (military) Basic training.

beginning

• n. (uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space…
• n. That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
• n. That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.
• n. The initial portion of some extended thing.
• v. present participle of begin.
• adj. (informal) Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.

best

• adj. superlative form of good: most good.
• adj. Most; largest.
• adv. superlative form of well: most well.
• adv. To the most advantage; with the most success, cause, profit, benefit, or propriety.
• n. (uncountable) The supreme effort one can make, or has made.
• n. (uncountable) One's best behavior.
• n. (countable) The person (or persons; or thing or things) that is (are) most excellent.
• v. To surpass in skill or achievement.
• v. (transitive) To beat in a contest;.

commencement

• n. The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.
• n. The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others.
• n. A graduation ceremony, from a school, college or university.

early

• adj. At a time in advance of the usual or expected event.
• adj. Arriving a time before expected; sooner than on time.
• adj. Near the start or beginning.
• adj. Having begun to occur; in its early stages.
• adv. At a time before expected; sooner than usual.
• adv. Soon; in good time; seasonably.
• n. (informal) A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place early in the day.

eldest

• adj. superlative form of old: most old; greatest in age or seniority.
• adj. (card games) (of a player) Receiving cards from the dealer first, before any other players.
• adj. (card games) (of a hand) Having higher, or superior cards.
• n. The eldest child in a family, or individual in a group.

firstborn

• n. The first child to be born to a parent or family.
• adj. Born as the first one in a family, flock or the like.
• adj. Most excellent; most distinguished or exalted.

firstly

• adv. (formal) In the first place; before anything else; first.

foremost

• adj. first, either in time or in space.
• adj. of a higher rank or position; paramount.
• adj. (nautical) closest to the bow.
• adv. in front.
• adv. prominently forward.

forward

• n. (dialectal or obsolete) Agreement; covenant.
• adj. Toward the front or at the front.
• adj. Without customary restraint or modesty; bold, cheeky, pert, presumptuous or pushy.
• adj. (finance) Expected in the future.
• adj. Ready; prompt; ardently inclined; in a bad sense, eager or hasty.
• adj. Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for the season; precocious.
• adv. Towards the front or from the front.
• adv. In the usual direction of travel.
• adv. Into the future.
• v. (transitive) To advance, promote.
• v. (transitive) To send (a letter, email etc.) to a third party.
• n. (rugby) one of the eight players (comprising two props, one hooker, two locks, two flankers and one number…
• n. (soccer) A player on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are…
• n. (ice hockey) An umbrella term for a centre or winger in ice hockey.
• n. (basketball) The small forward or power forward position; two frontcourt positions that are taller than…
• n. (nautical) The front part of a vessel.
• n. (Internet) An e-mail message that is forwarded to another recipient or recipients; an electronic chain…
• n. Misconstruction of foreword.

freshman

• n. (obsolete) A novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge.
• n. (US) A person of either sex entering the first year of an institution, especially a high school (ninth…

front

• n. The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
• n. The side of a building with the main entrance.
• n. A field of activity.
• n. A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
• n. (meteorology) The interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density, often resulting…
• n. (military) An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.
• n. (military) The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity…
• n. (military) The direction of the enemy.
• n. (military) When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command…
• n. (obsolete) A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army.
• n. (informal) An act, show, façade, persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself.
• n. (historical) That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
• n. The most conspicuous part.
• n. (obsolete) The beginning.
• n. (Britain) a seafront or coastal promenade.
• n. (obsolete) The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
• n. (slang, hotels, dated) The bellhop whose turn it is to answer a client's call, which is often the word…
• adj. Located at or near the front.
• adj. (comparable, phonetics) Of a vowel pronounced near the tip of the tongue.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To face (on, to); to be pointed in a given direction.
• v. (transitive) To face, be opposite to.
• v. (transitive) To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.
• v. (transitive) To adorn the front of; to put on the front.
• v. (phonetics, transitive, intransitive) To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.
• v. (linguistics, transitive) To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To act as a front (for); to cover (for).
• v. (transitive) To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.).
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To provide money or financial assistance in advance to.
• v. (intransitive) To assume false or disingenuous appearances.
• v. (transitive) To deceive or attempt to deceive someone with false or disingenuous appearances (on).
• v. To appear before, as in to front court.

gear

• n. (uncountable) equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.
• n. Clothing; garments.
• n. (obsolete) goods; property; household items.
• n. (countable) a wheel with grooves (teeth) engraved on the outer circumference, such that two such devices…
• n. (countable) a particular combination or choice of interlocking gears, such that a particular gear ratio…
• n. (countable) a configuration of the transmission of a motor car so as to achieve a particular ratio of…
• n. (slang) recreational drugs, including steroids.
• n. (uncountable, archaic) stuff.
• n. (obsolete) business matters; affairs; concern.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) anything worthless; nonsense; rubbish.
• v. (engineering, transitive) To provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear…
• v. (engineering, intransitive) To be in, or come into, gear.
• v. To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
• adj. (mostly British (Scouse)) great or fantastic.

get-go

• n. (colloquial) The beginning.

honours

• n. plural of honour.
• v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of honour.

inaugural

• adj. Of inauguration; as in a speech or lecture by the person being inaugurated.
• adj. Marking the beginning of an operation, venture, etc.
• n. An inauguration; a formal beginning.
• n. A formal speech given at the beginning of an office.

initial

• adj. Chronologically first, early; of or pertaining to the beginning, cause or origin.
• adj. Spatially first, placed at the beginning, in the first position; especially said of the first letter of…
• n. The first letter of a word or a name.
• n. In plural, the first letter of each word of a person's full name considered as a unit.
• n. (typography, calligraphy) A distinguished initial letter of a chapter or section of a document.
• n. (phonology) onset, part of a syllable that precedes the syllable nucleus in phonetics and phonology.
• v. (transitive) To sign one's initial(s), as an abbreviated signature.

initiative

• adj. Serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary.
• adj. In which voter initiatives can be brought to the ballot.
• n. A beginning; a first move.
• n. A new development; a fresh approach to something; a new way of dealing with a problem.
• n. The ability to act first or on one's own.
• n. An issue to be voted on, brought to the ballot by a sufficient number of signatures from among the voting…

initiatory

• adj. Of or pertaining to initiation.
• adj. inceptive, initial, inaugural or introductory.
• n. An introductory act or rite.

introductory

• adj. introducing; giving a preview or idea of.

kickoff

• n. Alternative spelling of kick-off.

low

• adj. In a position comparatively close to the ground.
• adj. Small in height.
• adj. Situated below the normal level, or the mean elevation.
• adj. Depressed, sad.
• adj. Not high in amount or quantity.
• adj. Of a pitch, suggesting a lower frequency.
• adj. Quiet; soft; not loud.
• adj. Despicable; lacking dignity; vulgar.
• adj. Lacking health or vitality; feeble; weak.
• adj. Being near the equator.
• adj. Humble in character or status.
• adj. Simple in complexity or development.
• adj. Designed for the slowest speed, as in low gear.
• adj. Articulated with a wide space between the flat tongue and the palette.
• adj. (phonetics) Made, as a vowel, with a low position of part of the tongue in relation to the palate.
• adj. (archaic) Not rich, highly seasoned, or nourishing; plain; simple.
• n. Something that is low; a low point.
• n. A depressed mood or situation.
• n. (meteorology) An area of low pressure; a depression.
• n. The lowest-speed gearing of a power-transmission system, especially of an automotive vehicle.
• n. (card games) The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.
• n. (slang) (usually accompanied by "the") a cheap, cost-efficient, or advantageous payment or expense.
• adv. Close to the ground.
• adv. Of a pitch, at a lower frequency.
• adv. With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently.
• adv. Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply.
• adv. In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly.
• adv. In a time approaching our own.
• adv. (astronomy) In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To depress; to lower.
• v. obsolete simple past tense of laugh.
• v. (intransitive) To moo.
• n. (countable, Britain, Scotland, dialect) A flame; fire; blaze.
• v. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To burn; to blaze.
• n. (archaic or obsolete) Barrow, mound, tumulus.
• n. (Scottish dialectal, archaic) A hill.

maiden

• n. (now chiefly literary) A girl or an unmarried young woman.
• n. A female virgin.
• n. (obsolete, dialectal) A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.
• n. A maidservant.
• n. (now rare) An unmarried woman, especially an older woman.
• n. (horse racing) A racehorse without any victory ('virgin record').
• n. (historical) A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.
• n. (cricket) A maiden over.
• n. (obsolete) A machine for washing linen.
• n. (Wicca) Alternative form of Maiden.
• adj. Virgin.
• adj. (of a female, human or animal) Without offspring.
• adj. Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.
• adj. (figuratively) Being a first occurrence or event.
• adj. (cricket) Being an over in which no runs are scored.
• adj. Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
• adj. (of a fortress) Never having been captured or violated.
• adj. (of a tree) Grown from seed and never pruned.

no.

• n. Abbreviation of number.

offset

• n. Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
• n. (international trade) A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within…
• n. (obsolete, c. 1555) A time at which something begins; outset.
• n. A printing method, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the…
• n. (programming) The difference between a target memory address and a base address.
• n. (signal analysis) The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base…
• n. The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.
• n. (surveying) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular…
• n. An abrupt bend in an object, such as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly…
• n. (botany) A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
• n. A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
• n. (architecture) A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by…
• v. To compensate for something.
• v. To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).

opening

• v. present participle of open.
• n. An act or instance of making or becoming open.
• n. Something that is open.
• n. An act or instance of beginning.
• n. Something that is a beginning.
• n. A vacant position, especially in an array.
• n. An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
• adj. (cricket) describing the first period of play, usually up to the fall of the first wicket; describing…

ordinal

• adj. Of a number, indicating position in a sequence.
• adj. (taxonomy) Of or relating to the groupings called orders.
• n. An ordinal number such as first, second and third.
• n. A book used in the ordination of Anglican ministers, or in certain Roman Catholic services.

original

• adj. (not comparable) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.
• adj. (not comparable) First in a series or copies/versions.
• adj. (not comparable) Newly created.
• adj. (comparable) Fresh, different.
• adj. (not comparable) Pioneering.
• adj. (not comparable) Having as its origin.
• n. An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived.
• n. A person with a unique and interesting personality and/or creative talent.
• n. (archaic) An eccentric.

outset

• n. the beginning or initial stage of something.

point

• n. A discrete division of something.
• n. A sharp extremity.
• n. (heraldry) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
• n. (nautical) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
• n. (historical) A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
• n. Lace worked by the needle.
• n. (US, slang, dated) An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.
• n. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
• n. (falconry) The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
• n. The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
• n. The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
• n. (medicine, obsolete) A vaccine point.
• n. In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.
• v. (intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or…
• v. (intransitive) To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
• v. (intransitive) To face in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive) To direct toward an object; to aim.
• v. To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
• v. (intransitive) To indicate a probability of something.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, masonry) To repair mortar.
• v. (transitive, masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or…
• v. (stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
• v. (transitive) To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
• v. (transitive) To mark with diacritics.
• v. (dated) To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.
• v. (transitive, computing) To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location…
• v. (transitive, Internet) To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail close to the wind.
• v. (intransitive, hunting) To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting…
• v. (medicine, of an abscess) To approximate to the surface; to head.
• v. (obsolete) To appoint.
• v. (dated) To give particular prominence to; to designate in a special manner; to point out.

position

• n. A place or location.
• n. A post of employment; a job.
• n. A status or rank.
• n. An opinion, stand, or stance.
• n. A posture.
• n. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
• n. (finance) An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
• n. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and…
• n. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
• v. To put into place.

premier

• adj. Foremost; first or highest in quality or degree.
• n. (politics, Britain, Westminster system) The leader of the government in parliament and leader of the cabinet.
• n. (politics, non-Westminster) The government leader in a legislative congress or leader of a government-level…
• n. (nautical, slang) The first lieutenant or other second-in-command officer of a ship.
• n. (Australia, sporting) The champion team of a particular season (especially as used in Australian rules…
• v. To perform, display or exhibit for the first time.

premiere

• n. The first showing of a film, play or other form of entertainment, often held as a special event with celebrity…
• n. The first episode of a television show or a particular season of that show.
• n. In a series of narrative works, the installment that is chronologically set first.
• n. The leading woman of a group, especially in a theatrical cast.
• v. (intransitive) Of a film or play, to play for the first time.
• v. (transitive) To present a film or play for the first time.

primary

• adj. The first in a group or series.
• adj. Main; principal; placed ahead of others.
• adj. (geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.
• adj. (chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree;…
• adj. (medicine) Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
• adj. (medicine) Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners,…
• n. A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.
• n. The first year of grade school.
• n. A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
• n. The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system.
• n. A primary school.
• n. (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
• n. A primary colour.
• n. (electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically…
• v. (US, intransitive) To take part in a primary election.
• v. (US, politics) To challenge an incumbent sitting politician for their political party's endorsement to…

prime

• adj. First in importance, degree, or rank.
• adj. First in time, order, or sequence.
• adj. First in excellence, quality, or value.
• adj. (mathematics, lay) Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
• adj. (mathematics, technical) Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.
• adj. (mathematics) Having its complement closed under multiplication: said only of ideals.
• adj. Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.
• adj. Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
• adj. (obsolete) Lecherous; lustful; lewd.
• n. (historical) The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
• n. (Christianity) The religious service appointed to this hour.
• n. (obsolete) The early morning generally.
• n. (now rare) The earliest stage of something.
• n. The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
• n. The chief or best individual or part.
• n. (music) The first note or tone of a musical scale.
• n. (fencing) The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword…
• n. (algebra, number theory) A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.
• n. (card games) A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of…
• n. (backgammon) Six consecutive blocks, which prevent the opponent's pieces from passing.
• n. The symbol ′.
• n. (chemistry, obsolete) Any number expressing the combining weight or equivalent of any particular element;…
• n. An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.
• n. (obsolete) The priming in a flintlock.
• v. (transitive) To prepare a mechanism for its main work.
• v. (transitive) To apply a coat of primer paint to.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be renewed.
• v. (intransitive) To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
• v. (intransitive, of a steam boiler) To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes…
• v. To apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).
• v. To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to coach.
• v. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To trim or prune.
• v. (mathematics) To mark with a prime mark.
• n. (cycling) An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points.

prototypal

• adj. Of or pertaining to a prototype.

prototypic

• adj. Of or pertaining to a prototype; prototypical.

prototypical

• adj. constituting or representing an original type of something that others are modelled on, or derived from.

rank

• adj. Strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter.
• adj. Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross.
• adj. Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.
• adj. Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.
• adj. Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.
• adj. Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.
• adj. Complete, used as an intensifier (usually negative, referring to incompetence).
• adj. (informal) Gross, disgusting.
• adj. (obsolete) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
• adj. (obsolete) Inflamed with venereal appetite.
• adv. (obsolete) Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.
• n. A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers [the corresponding term for the…
• n. (music) In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key…
• n. One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, or quality.
• n. The level of one's position in a class-based society.
• n. a hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.
• n. (taxonomy) a level in a scientific taxonomy system.
• n. (linear algebra) Maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
• n. The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor (mathematics).
• n. (chess) one of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number)…
• v. To place abreast, or in a line.
• v. To have a ranking.
• v. To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
• v. (US) To take rank of; to outrank.

showtime

• n. The time at which an entertainment event is set to begin.
• n. (figuratively) The time for action.
• interj. A declaration that something is about to happen, particularly that the person speaking is about to act.

start

• n. The beginning of an activity.
• n. A sudden involuntary movement.
• n. The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
• n. An appearance in a sports game from the beginning of the match.
• n. A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
• v. (transitive) To begin, commence, initiate.
• v. (intransitive) To begin an activity.
• v. To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.
• v. (intransitive) To break away, to come loose.
• v. (transitive, sports) To put into play.
• v. (nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
• v. (euphemistic) To start your periods (menstruation).
• n. A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.
• n. A handle, especially that of a plough.
• n. The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
• n. The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.

world-class

• adj. Of a standard that ranks among the best in the world.
• adj. (Can we verify^{([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for verification/English?? +])} this sense?) Of the highest…