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View synonyms for first-born

first-born

adjective

  1. eldest of the children in a family
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. the eldest child in a family
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

It meant something socially and legally to be the first-born son, a son at all, or a girl.

Content, my mother was at ease that her first-born would not fall into the ranks of picky eaters.

Elyon is the name of an ancient Phœnician god, slain by his son El, no doubt the “first-born of death” in Job xviii.

From this wonderful flower Brahma sprang, and, seeing nothing but water, imagined himself the first-born of all creatures.

The name given by the Dakotas to the first-born, if a female.

The mother said that she could not distinguish them, and that she did not know which was the first-born.

Then, "when I see the—blood—on the—lintel—and on the two—side-posts—I will not go in and—kill the first-born!"

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