firstly
AdverbUS[furst-lee]/ˈfɝstli/2 syllables
Open English WordNet
Adverb (1)
- before anything else“first we must consider the garter snake”Synonyms: firstforemostfirst of allfirst off
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Translations
Adverb in the first place
- Spanish
- primeramente
- French
- premièrement
- German
- erstens
- Italian
- in primo luogo
- Portuguese
- primeiramente
- Turkish
- önce
- Russian
- во-пе́рвых vo-pérvyx
- Arabic
- أَوَّلًا ʔawwalan
- Chinese
- 第一 dìyī
- Japanese
- 先ず mazu
14 more languages
- Dutch
- ten eerste
- Polish
- po pierwsze
- Greek
- πρώτον próton
- Indonesian
- pertama-tama
- Vietnamese
- trước hết
- Hungarian
- először
- Portuguese (PT)
- primeiramente
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 第一 dìyī
- Catalan
- primerament
- Esperanto
- unue
- Estonian
- esiteks
- Finnish
- ensiksi
- Romanian
- prim
- Scottish Gaelic
- an toiseach
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
First′ly adverb
In the first place; before anything else; — sometimes improperly used for first.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54