FIRST NAME


Meaning of FIRST NAME in English

(~s)

Your ~ 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 ~s.

Her ~ was Mary. I don’t know what her surname was.

N-COUNT: usu poss N

If two people are on first-name terms, they know each other well enough to call each other by their ~s, rather than having to use a more formal title.

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

PHRASE: usu v-link PHR, oft PHR with n

Collins COBUILD.      Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) .