Definition of First-nighter

1. Noun. Someone habitually a spectator at the openings of theatrical productions.

Generic synonyms: Playgoer, Theatergoer, Theatregoer

Lexicographical Neighbors of First-nighter

first-come-first-serve(p)
first-come-first-served
first-degree
first-degree burn
first-degree burns
first-degree murder
first-floor
first-footing
first-generation
first-half
first-hand
first-mover
first-name
first-nighter (current term)
first-order
first-order correlation
first-order kinetics
first-order logic
first-order reaction
first-order spectrum
first-party
first-past-the-post
first-person
first-person plural
first-person plurals
first-person shooter
first-person shooters

Literary usage of First-nighter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Life on the Stage: My Personal Experiences and Recollections by Clara Morris (1901)
"James Lewis used to say to me: " Clara is the biggest fraud of a first-nighter the profession can show. There she'll stand shivering and shaking, ..."

2. The Popular Theatre by George Jean Nathan (1918)
"The melodrama that wins the first-nighter's endorsement is based on the theory that the greatest crises in men's lives must inevitably occur after sundown. ..."

3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1890)
"Never was or will be a " first-nighter." Books are piled up all over the house from the basement up ! Our house has no basement. These books were picked up ..."

4. My First Book: The Experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark by Jerome Klapka Jerome (1897)
"I had the pleasure of seeing my signature more than once in the columns of certain theatrical journals, in the days when I was a constant first-nighter, ..."

5. The Savoy: An Illustrated Monthly of 1896 Reproduced in Five Volumes by Arthur Symons (1896)
"The standing- room by the bar is the resource of the first-nighter with friends who cannot get a seat in the front row. ..."

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