double first

American  

noun

British University.

1. a first in two subjects.

2. a student who earns a first in two subjects.

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double first British  

noun

1. a first-class honours degree in two subjects

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Example Sentences

Pushback on implementing double first bases might come from purists, but player safety has become an overarching concern as salaries have increased.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2025

In a double first, there are two woman serving this session as floor leaders — Senate Majority Leader Kim Ward, R-Westmoreland, and House Minority Leader Joanna McClinton, D-Philadelphia.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 5, 2021

She graduated from Oxford with a chemistry degree - he got a double first in natural sciences at Cambridge.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2019

The other is naming a college now under construction for a civil rights activist who is an African-American woman- a double first for the university.

From Washington Times • May 7, 2016

He had occupied himself too much with high church matters, and the polemics, politics, and outward demonstrations usually concurrent with high churchmanship, to devote himself with sufficient vigour to the acquisition of a double first.

From Barchester Towers by Trollope, Anthony