first fruits
Americanplural noun
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the earliest fruit of the season.
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the first products or results of anything.
plural noun
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the first results, products, or profits of an undertaking
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fruit that ripens first
Etymology
Origin of first fruits
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
Example Sentences
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That would have been especially troublesome for a community whose religious festivals were closely connected with agriculture, harvests, first fruits, and the seasonal cycle.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
At GTC, we saw the first fruits of the Nvidia-Groq partnership, a new server design for Groq LPUs that works in concert with GPU servers to keep performance high in the most demanding inference tasks.
From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026
Diogo Rau, Lilly’s chief information and digital officer, cautioned that it still might take years to get the first fruits of AI-powered drug discovery into the hands of patients, likely into the 2030s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
It will also see the first fruits of the National Film and Television School Sean Connery Talent Lab which has allowed six young filmmakers to make their first short films.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2025
Word of it crept in among the nuns; the beggars in front of the church spoke of it, for they would be there to take the tithe of the first fruits of the luck.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
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