noun:

• first goal; first point ➜ 先取点を挙げる

noun:

• sickle handle
• goby minnow (Pseudogobio esocinus)
• Oriental photinia (species of shrub, Photinia villosa) ➜ 牛殺し
• Asiatic dayflower (Commelina communis) ➜ 露草
• Joseph's-coat (species of amaranth, Amaranthus tricolor) ➜ 葉鶏頭

noun / ~の noun:

• first place; first rank; unit's position ［いちい］

noun:

• Japanese yew (Taxus cuspidata) - usu. イチイ, also 櫟 - usually written using kana alone

noun / ~する noun:

• being in someone's service for the first time; participating for the first time
• visiting a shrine (or temple) for the first time

noun / ~する noun:

• advance arrangements; preparatory meeting; briefing session
• overlap (of a coat, etc.)
• making something match exactly - archaism

noun:

• first-rate specimen; first-rate object; superb item; superb article; excellent thing; pick (e.g. of a litter); superb person; excellent person

noun:

• fur coat (to protect against the cold)
• clothes made with the down of birds

noun:

• the first half-year; first half of the year

noun:

• meeting one's master for the first time (of a new servant); ceremony at which a new servant has his first audience with his new master - archaism

noun / ~の noun:

• liner; line drive - Baseball term

noun:

• liner; ocean liner ➜ トランパー
• liner (of a coat, etc.); lining

expression:

• capitalizing on the fame of a parent; riding a parent's coat-tails

noun:

• beginning of spring
• first month of the lunar calendar - obsolete term

noun:

• First Epistle of Peter (book of the Bible)

noun:

• First Epistle of John (book of the Bible)

noun:

• Initial parts; first article; first off-tool parts (from a manufacturing process)

noun / ~の noun:

• first-class; first-rank; A1; the most; the best

expression:

• first come, first served; the early bird catches the worm

noun / ~する noun:

• love at first sight; being taken with someone at the first meeting

temporal noun / ~の noun:

• first term; first half-year; preceding period; early period Antonym: 後期

noun:

• portmanteau word; combination of two words (often first half of one, second half of another) ➜ 混成語

noun:

• leadoff batter; first batter - Baseball term - From English "top batter"
• first person appearing (witness, performer, etc.)

noun:

• beginning of spring
• first month of the lunar calendar; New Year ➜ 睦月

noun:

• the first generation of a family; school (of thought) or religious sect - obscure term

noun:

• euphonic change of unvoiced to voiced sound (on the first consonant of the non-initial mora of a compound)

noun:

• private first-class (army); airman first class (air force); lance corporal (US Marines; Commonwealth military); seaman (navy) - Military term