noun:

• first visit to inn, restaurant, etc. without an introduction

noun:

• initial stages; first stage; early period; pioneer days; beginning; outset

adverb:

• closely; intimately ➜ 親しい【したしい】
• personally; in person - referring to someone of higher status
• directly (experience); at first-hand

noun:

• Magadaava (where Buddha delivered his first sermon); The Deer Park

noun:

• competition (rivalry) to first (e.g. rider in a charge)

noun:

• First Kitchen (fast food restaurant chain)

noun:

• first system to rank officials into 12 levels (603 AD)

noun:

• Japan's first circulated coinage (minted in 708 CE) ➜ 和銅・富本銭

noun:

• first stools passed by a newborn baby; meconium ➜ 胎便

noun:

• beginning; commencement; outset

~の noun:

• first (one comes to); approaching

noun:

• affability; approachability

noun:

• first-class honors (e.g. in UK-style degrees) (honours)

adverb:

• immediately; at once; right away
• directly; in person; first hand

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to eat - male language
• to live; to make a living; to survive
• to bite; to sting (as insects do)
• to tease; to torment; to taunt; to make light of; to make fun of
• to encroach on; to eat into; to consume
• to defeat a superior; to threaten a position
• to consume time and-or resources
• to receive something (usu. an unfavourable event) - colloquialism
• to have sexual relations with a woman, esp. for the first time - male language - vulgar

noun:

• residential building in which the first floor is occupied by businesses

noun:

• first water drawn from a well on New Year's Day

noun / ~する noun:

• interview
• stage debut; first appearance
• meeting - humble language ➜ お目にかかる
• trial for a servant ➜ 奉公人

noun:

• women's hairstyle (first appearing during the mid-18th century) - archaism

noun:

• someone who asks others for answers without first researching by himself - slang

noun / ~の noun:

• frivolity; unpredictability; erraticism
• first-time guest in a red-light district

noun:

• first maple leaves to turn red in the season

noun:

• first and second volume (e.g. of a book); volume one and volume two; book one and book two

noun:

• imperial event at which high monks recited the Golden Light Sutra to pray for national security and good harvests (held annually at the palace from the 8th to the 14th of the first lunar month, between the Nara and Muromachi periods) ➜ 金光明最勝王経

expression:

• the worst goes foremost; those one eagerly await will not arrive first - proverb

noun:

• first Japanese bush warbler to chirp this year (i.e. spring)

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun:

• superior; first-class; excellent; top quality

interjection:

• (that's) just fine!; bring it on!