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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

first-generation en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of or relating to an immigrant or their family.
    • Trying to help a high school senior get into his dream school, Laurie Kopp Weingarten called the college to emphasize that the boy should be able to lay claim to the latest, and fuzziest, of all admissions hooks: being a first-generation student. 2017 March 11, Rochelle Sharpe, “Are You First Gen? Depends on Who’s Asking”, in The New York Times:
  2. (not-comparable) Of or relating to the initial version of a class of products.