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Heir to a throne, typically
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firstborn
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A firstborn (also known as an eldest child ) is the first child born to in the birth order of a couple through childbirth . Historically, the role of the first born child has been socially significant, particularly for a first born son in patriarchal societies. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES firstborn ▪ the queen’s firstborn son EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Often, the firstborn are favoured from the moment of birth. ▪ They were expecting a son, brother to 2-year-old Hannah, their firstborn .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
firstborn \firstborn\ n. The first child born to a parent; as, his firstborn was showered with gifts from relatives. Syn: eldest.
Usage examples of firstborn.
Firebird a kind of posterity by naming her firstborn for Iarla, the queen Firebird so admired.
What quality about those deepest, hairiest ancestors did the Firstborn recognise as human?
How odd that the Thyrians called Kiel firstborn, while Naetai would claim Kinnor as her heir.
Today was the pidyon hifben, the redemption of the firstborn male child that took place when the infant was thirty-one days old.
Artifacts recovered from wrecks were guarded like firstborn children, occasionally at knife point In this way, early deep-wreck divers had a measure of pirate in their blood.
Such a name was fully expected for a firstborn, though later they would start calling the baby Flavius to avoid the confusion of two Sabinuses in one house.
It was obvious that Natasha had plans for your firstborn, provided it was a girl.
Years and years I loved you, O, my son, my firstborn, when you lay in my womb.
It shot up firstborn when the ravening eagle on the rugged flanks of Caucasus let drip to the earth the blood-like ichor of tortured Prometheus.
If Chay and Tobin decided that their firstborn would be happier with only Radzyn as his share, then there were the two younger boys, Sorin and Andry.
Self, am pleased to present same to genuine princess, same being firstborn daughter of archfoe El Murid, Yasmid, captivated by self, at great peril, and brought forth from very heart of Desert of Death.
Half of it was to get in some coddling of her injured firstborn, and the other half was to check out Wyatt.
Beside their faces she counterposed Father Hoock’s when Nair told him how his new young wife had corrupted their firstborn.
Abraham, we are informed, was commanded by God to offer up his firstborn son Isaac as a burnt sacrifice, and was on the point of obeying the divine command, when God, content with this proof of his faith and obedience, substituted for the human victim a ram, which Abraham accordingly scarified instead of his son.
When sex-determination had become possible through centrifuging human sperm to separate the male-producing and female-producing types, most parents decided to have sons, especially for their firstborn.