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first time en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Mid-Atlantic, US) audio
  • /fɜːst taɪm/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /fɜɹst taɪm/ (General-American)

Meanings

  1. (euphemistic) An individual's first instance of sexual intercourse.
    • Do you remember your first time?
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see first, time.
    • If its submission is approved, it would not be the first time TfL has taken over services from a train operating company. 2025 October 15, David Stubbings, “News: TfL submits business case to DfT for transfer of Northern City Line services”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 11:
    • I'm flying to Castile next week. It'll be the first time I’ve been there.
    • Just a minute or so before we left — it must have been about 1:30 p.m. — Assistant Press Secretary Malcolm Kilduff came into the room and addressed me as "Mr. President." This was the first time anyone had called me that and I must have looked startled; I certainly felt strange. 1971, Lyndon Johnson, “The Beginning”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 11:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
first times Number=Plur lexicographic

Translations (13)

pl pierwszy raz (first instance of sexual intercourse) · km លើកទីមួយ ន (first instance of sexual intercourse) · pt primeira vez (first instance of sexual intercourse) · es primera vez (first instance of sexual intercourse) · de erstes Mal (first instance of sexual intercourse) · km លើកដំបូង (first instance of sexual intercourse) · fi ekakerta (first instance of sexual intercourse) · fr première fois (first instance of sexual intercourse) · ru пе́рвый раз (first instance of sexual intercourse) · ja 初体験 (first instance of sexual intercourse) · fi ensi kerta (first instance of sexual intercourse) · fi ensimmäinen kerta (first instance of sexual intercourse) · ca primera vegada (first instance of sexual intercourse)

first time en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (Mid-Atlantic, US) audio
  • /fɜːst taɪm/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /fɜɹst taɪm/ (General-American)

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To try for the first time.
    • I'm first timing this game.
    • Looking forward to first time this champion in my ranked games.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
first times Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
first timing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
first timed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
first timed Tense=Past lexicographic

Relateds

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