first

/fəːst/

US pronunciation

American sound/fəːst/

first

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

US voice -> first

Myanmar meaning

(adj) ပထမဆုံးဖြစ်သော။ (adv) ပထမ (det) အဦး (n) ပထမအကြိမ်

Full entry

first / fɜ:st / det

(က) အဦး။ အစ။ ပထမ။
the first public performance of the play ❍ his first wife ❍ their first baby ❍ her first job ❍ students in their first year at college ❍ at the first (ie earliest) opportunity ❍ the first signs that winter is approaching ❍ one's first impression / reaction ❍ King Edward I (said as ‘King, Edward the First’) ❍ go back to first (ie basic) principles ❍ an issue of the first importance ❍ She won first prize in the competition. ❍ Your first duty is to your family. ❍ English isn't her first (ie her native) language.
(ခ) အဦး။ အစ။ ပထမ။ ကနဦး။
his first real taste of success ❍ It was the first time they had ever met. Compare LAST¹adj ၁
adv
၁။ (က) ပထမ။ ဦးဆုံး။ ဦးစွာ။
Susan came into the room first. ❍ Who came first in the race? (ie Who won?) ❍ He climbed out of the window feet first. ❍ Ladies first (said by a man, allowing a woman to enter a room, etc before he does). (ခ) ပထမ။ ဦးဆုံး။ First I had to decide what to wear. ❍ Think first, then act. ❍ ‘Do you want a drink?’ ‘I'll finish my work first. ’ Compare LAST¹adv
၂။ ပထမဦးစွာ။ When did you first meet him? ❍ The play was first performed in Paris. ❍ When he first arrived in this country, he couldn't speak any English.
၃။ ပထမအနေဖြင့်။ This method has two advantages: first it is cheaper and second(ly) it is quicker.
၄။ ပထမ။ အရင်။ He said he'd resign first
(ie rather than do what had been suggested).
n, pron
၁။ the first [C] (pl unchanged) ပထမဆုံးဖြစ်သူ (သို့) အကြိမ်။ I'm the first in my family to go to university. ❍ Sheila and Jim were the first to arrive. ❍ I'd be the first to admit
(ie I will most willingly admit) I might be wrong. ❍ The first I heard about the firm closing down (ie The first time I became aware of it) was when George asked me what I planned to do. Compare LAST¹n ၁
၂။ [C] (infml ) ပထမအကြိမ်။ a real first for the German team.
၃။ [C] ~ (in sth ) (Brit ) ဂုဏ်ထူးတန်းတွင် ပထမတန်းဖြင့် အောင်မြင်ခြင်း။ She got a first in maths at Exeter.
၄။ [U] အနိမ့်ဆုံးဂီယာ။ go up the hill in first.
❏ at first [IDM ] အစအဦးက။ အစပထမက။ ကနဦးတွင်။ အစဦးတွင်။ At first I thought he was shy, but then I discovered he was just not interested in other people. ❍ (saying) If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
❏ come first [IDM ] ဦးစားပေးသည်။ In any decision he makes, his family always comes first.
❏ first aid n [U] ရှေးဦးသူနာပြုနည်း။
❏ first and foremost [IDM ] ပထမဦးဆုံး။
He does a bit of writing, but first and foremost he's a teacher.
❏ first balcony n (US ) = DRESS CIRCLE
❏ first base n
ဘေ့စ်ဘောကစားနည်းတွင်ဘောလုံးကိုတုတ်ဖြင့်ရိုက်ပြီး နောက် ကွင်းပတ်ပြေးရာတွင် ပထမဆုံး ဝင်ရသည့် နေရာ။
❏ first-born n, adj (dated ) သားဦး။
their first-born son.
❏ first class n [U]
၁။ ရထား၊ သင်္ဘော စသည်တွင် ပထမတန်း။ Smoking is not allowed in first class. ❍ first-class carriages/compartments / seats.
၂။ (စာပို့ ရာတွင်) အမြန်ဆုံးချောပို့။ First class costs more. ❍ A first-class letter should arrive the following day. ❍ Ten first-class stamps, please.
adj ပထမတန်းစား။ ထိပ်တန်း။ အကောင်းဆုံး။ The entertainment provided was first class. ❍ They can afford to eat at first-class restaurants. ❍ She's got a first-class degree from Hull University. ❍ They're first-class people — you'll like them.
adv (ခရီးသွားရာတွင်) ပထမတန်းဖြင့်။ (စာပို့ရာတွင်) အမြန်ဆုံး ချောပို့စနစ်ဖြင့်။ travel first class
❍ I sent the letter first class on Monday.
❏ first come, first served [IDM ] (saying ) ဦးရာလူ။
❏ first cousin n = COUSIN
❏ first-day cover n (Brit ) အထိမ်းအမှတ်တစ်ခုခုကို ဂုဏ်ပြု၊ မှတ်တမ်းတင်သည့်အနေဖြင့် ကနဦး ထုတ်ဝေသော တံဆိပ်ခေါင်း ပေါ်တွင် ယင်းနေ့စွဲပါ အထိမ်းအမှတ် အထူးတံဆိပ်တုံး ရိုက်နှိပ် ထားပြီး ယင်းတစ်နေ့တည်းသာရောင်းသည့် စာအိတ် (သို့) ကတ်ပြား စသည့် အထိမ်းအမှတ် ပထမနေ့စာအိတ်။
❏ first degree n [U] လူသတ်မှုတွင် အပြစ်အပေါ့ဆုံး အဆင့် (သို့) မီးလောင်ခြင်း၊ ရေနွးပူလောင်ခြင်းတို့တွင် အသက်သာဆုံးအဆင့်။ He was charged with murder in the first degree / first-degree murder. ❍ Hot coffee can give first-degree burns.
❏ first-ever adj ပထမဆုံး။ ဦးဆုံး။ the first-ever woman vice-president.
❏ first finger n = INDEX FINGER
❏ first floor (usu the first floor) n [sing]
၁။ (Brit ) ပထမထပ်။ a first-floor flat.
၂။ (US ) မြေညီထပ်။ ❍ FLOOR¹
❏ first-fruit n (usu pl )
၁။ ပေါ်ဦးပေါ်ဖျား သီးနှံ။
၂။ ပထမဆုံး ရသည့်လုပ်စာ (သို့) ရလဒ်။
❏ first gear n မော်တော်ကား (သို့) မော်တော်ဆိုင်ကယ်တွင် အနိမ့်ဆုံး ဂီယာ။
❏ first lady n
၁။ the First Lady [sing] (US ) ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတ၏ ဇနီး (သို့) ယင်းပြည် တစ်ခုမှ ဘုရင်ခံ၏ ဇနီး။
၂။ [C usu sing ] (အတတ်ပညာ တစ်ရပ်စသည်နှင့် ပတ်သက်၍) ပထမဆုံး လမ်းစတီထွင်လုပ်သူ အမျိုးသမီး။ recognized as the first lady of romantic fiction.
❏ (the) first / last / next but one, two, etc [IDM ] တစ်ခု နှစ်ခု ကျော်ပြီး (သို့) မတိုင်မီ ဦးဆုံး (သို့) နောက်ဆုံး။ Take the first turning but one on your left. ဘယ်ဘက် တစ်လမ်းကျော် လမ်းချိုးအတိုင်းဝင်ပါ။ ❍ I live in the last house but two in this street. ဒီလမ်းမှာ ကျုပ်အိမ်ပြီး နှစ်အိမ်ပဲ ကျန်တော့တယ်။
❏ first light n [U] အရုဏ်ဦး။ We left before / at first light.
❏ firstly adv (in giving a list) ပထမအနေဖြင့်။ There are two reasons for this decision: firstly,…
❏ first name n အများအားဖြင့် အနောက်နိုင်ငံတို့တွင် သားသမီးမွေးသည့်အခါ မျိုးရိုးအမည်၏ ရှေ့မှ တပ်ခေါ်ရန်ပေးသည့် အမည်။ ပထမအမည်။ ခရစ်ယာန် အမည်။ Mrs Williams's first names are Margaret Elizabeth. ❍ be on first-name terms with sb. ပထမအမည်ဖြင့် ခေါ်ခေါ်ပြောပြော လုပ်နိုင် လောက်အောင် ရင်းနှီးသည်။ ❍ NAME n Compare FORENAME, GIVEN NAME, CHRISTIAN NAME
❏ first night n (ဇာတ်ကား၊ ရုပ်ရှင်ကား စသည်) ပွဲဦးထွက်ည။ tickets for the first night of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ ❍ suffer from first-night nerves (ie as a performer). Compare PREMIÈRE
❏ first of all [IDM ]
၁။ ပထမဦးဆုံး။ First of all she just smiled, then she started to laugh.
၂။ ပထမဦးဆုံး။ Well, first of all we can't possibly spare the time.
❏ first off [IDM ] (infml ) ပထမဆုံး။ အရင်ဆုံး။ First off, let's see how much it'll cost.
❏ first offender n ပထမအကြိမ် ပြစ်မှုကျူးလွန်သူ။
❏ the first person n [sing]
၁။ (grammar ) ပြောသူနာမ်စား။ ဥတ္တမပုရိသ။ အမှယောဂ။ ‘I am' is the first person singular of the present tense of the verb ' to be’. ❍ ‘I’, ‘me’, ‘we’ and ‘us’ are first-person pronouns.
၂။ ပြောသူနာမ်စား။ Hemingway often writes in the first person.
❏ first-rate adj ထူးကဲသော။ ထူးချွန်သော။ ပြောင်မြောက် သော။ အလွန်ကောင်းသော။ ထိပ်တန်းကျသော။ a first-rate meal ❍ The food here is first-rate.
adv ကျန်းမာလှစွာ။ ကျန်းမာပကတိ ချမ်းသာစွာ။
❏ first refusal n [U] (Brit ) ပထမဆုံး ငြင်းပိုင်ခွင့်။ If you ever decide to sell your car, I hope you'll give me (the) first refusal.
❏ first school n (ဗြိတိန်တွင်) ၅ နှစ်အရွယ်မှ ၈ နှစ် (သို့) ၉ နှစ်အတွင်းရှိ ကလေးများကျောင်း။
❏ first-time adj ပထမအကြိမ်။ first-time house buyers.
❏ the First World War (also World War I ) n [sing] ပထမကမ္ဘာစစ်။
❏ from the (very) first [IDM ] အစပထမ ကတည်းက။ အစကတည်းက။ They were attracted to each other from the first.
❏ from first to last [IDM ] အစက အဆုံးအထိ၊ တောက် လျှောက်။ It was a splendid show from first to last.
❏ not get to first base (with sth/sb) [IDM ] (infml esp US ) တစ်စုံတစ်ဦးကို ချဉ်းကပ်ရာတွင် အနားသို့ပင် သီခွင့်မရ။ ပွဲဦးထွက်ကပင် လန်သွားသည်။
❏ put sb/sth first [IDM ] ဦးစားပေးသည်။ put one's career / reputation / children first.

More examples

He has two daughters from his first marriage and a son from his second.
Julia got there first, but Susan arrived just a few minutes later.
I was first in the queue so I think I should be served first.
[the first] : The lecture is the first in a series that will be presented at the university.
First, let’s go around the room and introduce ourselves.
Can’t I just finish reading this article first?
There is a strict procedure you must follow: first make sure the safety catch is on.
Take the first turning on the right.
It’s the first house that you come to.
This will be Kenny’s first trip overseas.
I first met him in 1980.
[the first] : The strike is the first in the industry since 1987.
[the first time] : I remember the first time I went to church.
Who was the first man on the moon?
‘Has anyone else visited you?’ ‘No, you’re the first.’
[the first to do something] : Hillary and Norgay were the first to climb Everest.
He cooked me a meal, which was a first for him.
They borrowed $65 million to cover the first six months of 1993.
When I first started running, I could do a mile in nine minutes.
The first few days of our holiday were wonderful.
His first love was music.
Our first consideration must be the safety of the passengers.
There are four reasons. First, the company has to make money.
Karen has always been first in her class.

Synonyms

primary, initial, original, opening, foremost, earliest, former, A-number-1, aboriginal, advanced, ahead, alpha, antecedent, antecessor, anterior, arch, at the outset, basic, before all else, beforehand, beginning, best, cardinal, champion, chief, conquering hero, defeater, dominant, early, elementary, eminent, essential, first off, first-class, first-string, firstly, formerly, front, fundamental, gold medalist, greatest, head, head of the line, headmost, in the beginning, in the first place, inaugural, inceptive, incipient, initially, initials, introductory, key, kickoff, lead off, leading, least, main, major, medalist, medalwinner, mock up, mock-up, number one, numero uno, originally, originator, outstanding, paramount, pioneer, predominant, preeminent, premier, primarily, prime, primeval, primitive, primo, primogenial, primordial, principal, pristine, prizewinner, prototype, ranking, right up front, rudimentary, ruling, slightest, smallest, sovereign, subjugator, supreme, title holder, title-holder, titleholder, to begin with, to start with, top dog, top of the list, top-flight, vanquisher, victor, winner

Antonyms