FIRST FAMILY


Meaning of FIRST FAMILY in English

noun

Usage: sometimes capitalized both Fs

1. : a family of high social rank or pretensions especially due to descent from the first settlers of a place

those few inhabitants of Boston who regard themselves as the … end-all American civilization — the thirty or forty first families — Katharine Rosin

— abbr. FF

2. : the family enjoying preeminent status in some place

the closest relatives of the young god-king automatically became the nation's first family — Heinrich Harrer

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.