first name

first name
first names
N-COUNT: usu poss N
Your first name is the first of the names that were given to you when you were born. You can also refer to all of your names except your surname as your first names.

Her first name was Mary. I don't know what her surname was.

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PHRASE: usu v-link PHR, oft PHR with n If two people are on first-name terms, they know each other well enough to call each other by their first names, rather than having to use a more formal title.

The two were said to have been on first-name terms...

Jim has been in the company for many years, and is on first-name terms with many of the board directors.


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  • first name — Name Name (n[=a]m), n. [AS. nama; akin to D. naam, OS. & OHG. namo, G. name, Icel. nafn, for namn, Dan. navn, Sw. namn, Goth. nam[=o], L. nomen (perh. influenced by noscere, gnoscere, to learn to know), Gr. o mona, Scr. n[=a]man. [root]267. Cf.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • first name — ☆ first name n. GIVEN NAME * * * ➡ names * * * …   Universalium

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