{
    "term": "first",
    "partOfSpeech": "determiner, ordinal number",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "happening or coming before all other similar things or people; 1st",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "her first husband"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the first turning on the right"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I didn't take the first bus."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was the **first time** they had ever met."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's always exciting to visit a country **for the first time**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "students in their **first year** at college"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**First impressions** can be misleading."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She resolved to do it at the first *(= earliest)* opportunity."
                },
                {
                    "text": "King Edward I *(= pronounced ‘King Edward the First’)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the first of May/May 1st"
                },
                {
                    "text": "His second book is better than his first."
                },
                {
                    "text": "If he wants to see me, he should make the first move."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Local voters gave Steven Hughes first preference."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My first impulse was to run away."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We're having chicken for the first course."
                },
                {
                    "text": "When the first settlers moved into the area they faced immense hardship."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You can have first choice of all the rooms."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the most important or best",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Your first duty is to your family."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She won **first prize** in the competition."
                },
                {
                    "text": "an issue of the first importance"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fɜːst/",
                "audio": "fi/first/first__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fɜːrst/",
                "audio": "fi/first/first__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English fyr(e)st; of Germanic origin, related to Old Norse fyrstr and German Fürst ‘prince’, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit prathama, Latin primus, and Greek prōtos."
}