first time

See also: first-time

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fɜːst taɪm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɜɹst taɪm/

• Audio (Mid-Atlantic US):

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Noun

first time (plural first times)

1. (euphemistic) An individual's first instance of sexual intercourse.

   Do you remember your first time?

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see first,‎ time.

   I'm flying to Castile next week. It'll be the first time I’ve been there.

   • 1971, Lyndon Johnson, “The Beginning”, in The Vantage Point‎, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 11:

     Just a minute or so before we left — it must have been about 1:30 p.m. — Assistant Press Secretary Malcolm Kilduff came into the room and addressed me as "Mr. President." This was the first time anyone had called me that and I must have looked startled; I certainly felt strange.

   • 2025 October 15, David Stubbings, “News: TfL submits business case to DfT for transfer of Northern City Line services”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 11:

     If its submission is approved, it would not be the first time TfL has taken over services from a train operating company.

Translations

first instance of sexual intercourse

Catalan: primera vegada f Finnish: ensimmäinen kerta, ensi kerta, ekakerta French: première fois f Japanese: 初体験 (ja) (はつたいけん, hatsutaiken) Khmer: លើកដំបូង (ləəkdɑmboung), លើកទីមួយ ន (ləəktiimuəy nɔɔ) Polish: pierwszy raz m Portuguese: primeira vez f Russian: пе́рвый раз (ru) m (pérvyj raz) Spanish: primera vez f

Verb

first time (third-person singular simple present first times, present participle first timing, simple past and past participle first timed)

1. (chiefly video games, transitive) To try for the first time.

   I'm first timing this game.

   Looking forward to first time this champion in my ranked games.

See also

• first-time