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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
firstborn
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
firstborn

firstborn \firstborn\ n. The first child born to a parent; as, his firstborn was showered with gifts from relatives.

Syn: eldest.

Wiktionary
firstborn

a. 1 Born as the first one in a family, flock or the like. 2 Most excellent; most distinguished or exalted. n. The first child to be born to a parent or family.

WordNet
firstborn
  1. adj. first in order of birth; "the firstborn child" [syn: eldest]

  2. n. the offspring who came first in the order of birth [syn: eldest]

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Firstborn (1984 film)

Firstborn (titled Moving In in Europe) is a 1984 drama film starring Teri Garr, Peter Weller, Christopher Collet, Corey Haim (in his film debut), Sarah Jessica Parker and Robert Downey, Jr.. It was filmed in New Jersey and New York State and was finally released on DVD and Blu-ray on July 31, 2012.

Firstborn (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

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"Firstborn" is the 173rd episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. The 21st episode of the seventh season.

Worf is visited by a mysterious Klingon saying Worf's brother Kurn sent him to help Alexander grow into becoming a Klingon warrior.

Firstborn (disambiguation)

Firstborn may refer to:

  • The first born baby in childbirth
  • primogeniture, the concept that the first-born child inherits their parent's property
  • firstborn (Judaism) bechor in rabbinical Judaism
Firstborn (novel)

Firstborn is a 2007 novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter. It is the third book, billed as the conclusion of the A Time Odyssey series.

Firstborn (Dragonlance)

Firstborn is a fantasy novel by Paul B. Thompson and Tonya R. Carter which is set in the world of the Dragonlance campaign setting and is the first volume in the Elven Nations series.

Firstborn (Judaism)

The firstborn or firstborn son (Hebrew בְּכוֹר bəḵōr) is an important concept of the Hebrew Bible and Rabbinic Judaism. The role of firstborn son carries significance in the redemption of the first-born son, in the allocation of a double portion of the inheritance, and in the prophetic application of "firstborn" to the nation of Israel.

Firstborn

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. In law, many systems have incorporated the concept of primogeniture, wherein the first-born child inherits their parent's property. The firstborn in Judaism, the bechor, is also accorded a special position.

While an only child will by definition also always be the "firstborn", in larger families the firstborn often perceives himself or herself to be treated differently from later children. Alfred Adler (1870–1937), an Austrian psychiatrist , and a contemporary of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, was one of the first theorists to suggest that birth order influences personality in the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century. He argued that birth order can leave an indelible impression on an individual's style of life, which is one's habitual way of dealing with the tasks of friendship, love, and work. According to Adler, firstborns are "dethroned" when a second child comes along, and this may have a lasting influence on them. Younger and only children may be pampered and spoiled, which can also affect their later personalities. When examining answers from organized studies, personality and attitude traits are repeated when comparing different children born into the same birth order.

Read more: http://www.healthofchildren.com/B/Birth-Order.html#ixzz44KhV1ZtI

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.