first
/ˈfɜːst/ noun, pronounDefinition
the first › the first person, people, thing, or things: Hillary and Norgay were the first to climb Everest. I enjoyed his second novel more than the first.
be a first › to be something that has never happened before: Man walking on the moon was a first in space history.
› [C] the highest exam result that you can achieve at the end of a university course in the UK
(Definition of first nounpronoun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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