'At first' definitions:

Definition of 'At first'

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First \First\ (f[~e]rst), adv. Before any other person or thing in time, space, rank, etc.; -- much used in composition with adjectives and participles. [1913 Webster]
Adam was first formed, then Eve. --1 Tim. ii. 13. [1913 Webster]
At first, At the first, at the beginning or origin.
First or last, at one time or another; at the beginning or end. [1913 Webster]
And all are fools and lovers first or last. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

Words containing 'At first'

At the first,
First,
Firstly,
first in first out,
first of all,
first off,
At first blush,
At first hand,
At the first blush,
Double first,
First Mesa,
First coat,
First day,
First floor,
First fruit,
First fruits,
First intention,
First mate,
First meridian,
First name,
First officer,
First or last,
First sergeant,
First watch,
First water,
at first glance,
at first sight,
first Lautverschiebung,
first aid,
first amendment,
first and last,
first appearance,
first balcony,
first base,
first baseman,
first blush,
first cause,
first class,
first cousin,
first cousins,
first crusade,
first degree,
first derivative,
first draft,
first estate,
first gear,
first half,
first harmonic,
first impression,
first lady,
first language,
first lieutenant,
first light,
first moment,
first mortgage,
first move,
first of may,
first offender,
first period,
first person,
first place,
first principle,
first prize,
first quarter,
first rate,
first reading,
first rudiment,
first sacker,
first state,
first step,
first stomach,
first strike,
first string,
first team,
first thing,
first trimester,
for the first time,
in the first place,
last in first out,
when first seen,
first-come-first-serve,
first-come-first-served,
A buck of the first head,
Court of first instance,
First Mesa, AZ,
First-class,
First-hand,
First-order,
First-rate,
To heal by the first intention,
To play first fiddle,
Union by the first intention,
corinthians first epistle to the,
euclid's first axiom,
first baron beveridge,
first baron kelvin,
first baron lytton,
first baron macaulay,
first baron passfield,
first baron rutherford,
first baron tennyson,
first battle of ypres,
first council of constantinople,
first council of lyons,
first council of nicaea,
first cranial nerve,
first duke of marlborough,
first duke of wellington,
first earl of beaconsfield,
first earl of chatham,
first earl of orford,
first earl wavell,
first epistle of john,
first epistle of peter,
first epistle to the corinthians,
first epistle to the thessalonians,
first epistle to timothy,
first lateran council,
first law of motion,
first law of thermodynamics,
first lord of the treasury,
first marquess cornwallis,
first vatican council,
first viscount nuffield,
first visual area,
first world war,
first-nighter,
first-rater,
first-string,
first-year,
forty-first,
goods of the first order,
hundred-and-first,
john first epistle of,
kepler's first law,
newton's first law,
peter first epistle of,
pseudo first order,
right of first publication,
sergeant first class,
thirty-first,
timothy first epistle to,
twenty-first,
First-class car,
first baron marks of broughton,
first baron rutherford of nelson,
first earl kitchener of khartoum,
first viscount haldane of cloan,
first-aid kit,
first-aid station,
first-class mail,
first-class scout,
first-degree burn,
first-order correlation,
first-place finish,
newton's first law of motion,
First-class railway carriage,
first epistle of paul the apostle to the corinthians,
first epistle of paul the apostle to the thessalonians,
first epistle of paul the apostle to timothy,
first of october antifascist resistance group,
first-class honours degree