Definition of Firsthand

1. Adjective. Received directly from a source. "Firsthand information"

Similar to: Primary

2. Adverb. From the original source; directly. "I heard this story firsthand"
Exact synonyms: At First Hand

Definition of Firsthand

1. a. Obtained directly from the first or original source; hence, without the intervention of an agent.

Definition of Firsthand

1. Adjective. Direct, without intermediate stages. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Firsthand

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Firsthand

first visceral cleft
first water
first woman
first women
first world problem
first world problems
firstborn
firstborns
firstcomer
firstcomers
firste
firster
firstest
firstfruit
firstfruits
firsthand (current term)
firstie
firsties
firstlight
firstling
firstlings
firstly
firstmost
firstness
firstnesses
firstripe
firsts
firststringer
firststringers

Literary usage of Firsthand

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

1. Resources of the Pacific Slope: A Statistical and Descriptive Summary of the by John Ross Browne (1869)
"Boonville was built firsthand depended on placer mines ; it is now nearly deserted. Ruby City was both a placer and vein mining town ; at present it is ..."

2. Sexual Harassment Policy Survey of Fifty States and the District of Columbia (1993)
"In addition, any employee of the Legislature who has been subjected to workplace harassment or who has firsthand knowledge of a situation involving ..."

3. The Journal of Geography (1915)
"The relation of man to his organic and inorganic setting can never be appreciated fully without some firsthand experience of varying conditions of ..."

4. Bulletin by University of the State of New York (1902)
"He will find his whole manner affected i" presenting to a class any pari of the subject if he knows some part of it at firsthand. ..."

5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1867)
"You have many things which you would wish to reach your neighbours' ears, and yet which you would not like to say firsthand. One began to see, after a time, ..."

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