What is "first-name"

Usage examples of "first-name".

He also noticed that during the few minutes they were together, Aguinaldo had oddly enough returned to first-name informality.

Thanks to Ruthe and Dina, before Kate was twelve, she was on a first-name basis with every living thing in the Park, Animalia and Plan-tae, by division, class, order, family, genus, and species.

Stoker, between the Rev. Cyprian Eveleth and Bathsheba, daughter of the first-named clergyman.

Mimbs and ma'am, when they'd been on a first-name basis for all the twenty-five years she'd been chairwoman of the House and Grounds Committee.

For some days now, Brandi had been asking Jeff to go on a first-name basis and call him Hank.

Auxiliaries put on bake sales in aid of this or that, offering pies and cookies and cakes, and jars of jam and chutney and pickles, each with a first-name label: Rhoda’.

She still worked nearly every waking moment at her job as chief executive officer of Astro Corporation, still spent as much time in the factories and research labs as in the corporate offices and conference rooms, still knew each of the division heads and many of the lower-echelon managers on a first-name, drinking buddy basis.