firstborn

[ furst-bawrn ]

/ ˈfɜrstˈbɔrn /

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adjective

first in the order of birth; eldest.

noun

a firstborn child.

a first result or product.

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Origin of firstborn

Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; see origin at first, born

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How to use firstborn in a sentence

Fluoride first entered an American water supply through a rather inelegant technocratic scheme.
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In the first episode, an officer is shown video of himself shooting and killing a man.
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But since those rosy scenarios were first floated, the California political scene has grown more crowded.
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The influential al Qaeda propagandist, who was born in New Mexico, died in a U.S. drone strike later that year.
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Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.
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This is the first and principal point at which we can stanch the wastage of teaching energy that now goes on.
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He was converted and baptized, and was the first Hebrew instructor at Harvard college.
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To reproduce the impulse born of the thought—this is the aim of a psychological method.
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And I have not had the first morsel of food prepared from this grain offered me since I reached the shores of Europe.
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Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.
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British Dictionary definitions for firstborn

first-born

adjective

eldest of the children in a family

noun

the eldest child in a family

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