单词 | first name |
释义 | first name A person's first or Christian name. Also as attrib. phr. Hence as v. trans., to address (a person) by the first name; first-naming vbl. n.
c1250[see name n. 1]. 1598Florio Worlde of Wordes 291/2 Prenome, the first name, the name given at the font. 1839C. F. Briggs Adv. H. Franco I. 74 ‘My first name is Harry,’ I said. 1914‘E. Bramah’ Max Carrados 66 This, Parkinson,..is a photograph of a Mr. ―. What first name, by the way? 1935Punch 7 Aug. 142/2 He called her by her first name for the first time. 1940S. Lewis Bethel Merriday xxv. 267 Zed and..Bill Mattocks..were already first-naming each other as though they had been intimates for years. 1952P. H. Bonner SPQR (1953) viii. 71 We are not even on a first-name basis. 1959A. Harrington Life Crystal Palace (1960) vii. 109 The company's democratic social organization..permits him to first-name..those several ranks higher. 1968Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 23 May (1970) 677 Nearly everybody was on a first-name basis. |

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