FIRST DAY

Definition: FIRST DAY

FIRST DAY

1. Sunday; -- so called by the Friends.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: FIRST DAY

From their first day on Earth they will be able top look up and know that there is law and order in the heavens (Moonraker; writing credit: Christopher Wood)

Now remember, it's your first day of training (Mulan; writing credit: Robert D. San Souci; Rita Hsiao)

Find them and make friends with them on the first day. (PCU; writing credit: Adam Leff; Zak Penn)

Hey, it's the first day of the month (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

The first day of spring semester (Van Wilder; writing credit: Brent Goldberg; David Wagner)

From the first day (I'll Never Break Your Heart; performing artist: Backstreet Boys)

First day of school (Life Story; performing artist: Black Rob)

Seems like ever since the first day we met (Sittin' Up In My Room (OST Version); performing artist: Brandy)

It's the last day of spring, see you first day this summer (Between Me and You; performing artist: Ja Rule)

And yes I will be present on the first day of school, (Ms. Jackson; performing artist: Outkast)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Roger the Red-Banded Raccoon: Roger and Rosie's First Day Out! (reference)

• First Day on a Strange New Planet (Blast Off Boy and Blorp) (reference)

• First Day at Day Care (Allegra's Window) (reference)

• Forgetful Max First Day at School (reference)

• Gettysburg: The First Day (Civil War America) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

First day on the trail up Station Azimuth Triangulation party of William M. Scaife. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Mosaic of narrow-angle pictures taken at 10-sec. intervals. First day of TIROS I operation. Monthly Weather Review, October 1961, p. 376. Credit: NOAA in Space.

Aspen overlook on Mount Lemmon in the Coronado National Forest the first day of evacuee reentry following the Bullock Fire. Credit: Unknown.

The first day of Perlite Mining. Credit: Tillman.

Pilots of Fighting Squadron 41 (VF-41) singing in their ready room aboard USS Ranger (CV-4), before "zero hour" of the first day of the invasion of Morocco, 8 November 1942. Lieutenant Malcolm T. Wordell, Squadron Executive Officer, (at right) is leading the songs. Lieutenant Jacob W. Onstott is standing in the left center. Note situation board behind them, and chart of aircraft insignia at left. Credit: NAVY.

Photographed from USS San Francisco (CA-38) on 7 August 1942, the first day of landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi. McKean was part of the Tulagi landing group. Credit: NAVY.

Father walking son from house on his first day of school, as mother and daughter watch from doorway. Credit: Library of Congress.

Wee Willie Winkie's world. The first day Willie Winkie was at the sea side ... Credit: Library of Congress.

That first day feeling -- in again for ten months. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mondorf, Luxembourg, 1940--Houses destroyed during the first day of the invasion, May 10. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-In-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for supressing said rebellion, do, on this 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the first day above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States the following, to wit: Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St. Bernard, Palquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James, Ascension, Assumption, Terrebone, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northhampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth), and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued. (Abraham Lincoln)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And so, from the very first day, all that thought and felt in her began to love this kind old friend

As the train steamed out of the station he recalled his childish wonder of years before and every event of his first day at Clongowes

When the folks first left, and the evening of the first day came, the hunting cats slouched in from the fields and mewed on the porch

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

It was on the first day we all set up our tents and helped the teachers unpack the vans with all the food and stuff. (references)

Hemodynamic compromise occurs a median of 5 days after symptom onset--usually dramatically within the first day of hospitalization. (references)

The majority of children with febrile seizures have rectal temperatures greater than 102 degrees F. Most febrile seizures occur during the first day of a child's fever. (references)

Children

Moldova

The Minister of Education stated that more than 7,000 students did not show up for the first day of classes in the autumn; however, press reports cited a Ministry of Education estimate that 25 percent of students in rural schools did not attend school. (references)

Civil Liberties

Suriname

The journalist was known to be critical of Bouterse, and the attack took place the first day that Bouterse occupied his new seat in the Assembly. (references)

Ghana

On May 7, the first day of the ban, the Ga Traditional Council (GTC) announced that the agreement it had reached with local churches in 2000 was not applicable during the year and that the ban would apply to all drumming and noise-making. (references)

Economic History

Argentina

The cost for this service is $500 first day, $450 each additional day of appointments. (references)

Haiti

The price for this service is $ 500.00 (US) for the first day with 4 meetings and additional 2-4 meetings on the second day for $400.00 (US). (references)

Qatar

Charges and honoraria for local service agents must be negotiated between the two parties from the very first day of their long-term or short-term relationship. (references)

Minorities

Iran

Thousands of Baha'is who were dismissed from government jobs in the early 1980's receive no unemployment benefits and have been required to repay the Government for salaries or pensions received from the first day of employment. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "FIRST DAY": first day at school ♦ first day of the month. Additional references.

Albanian

e diel (quadragesima, sabbath, Sunday). (various references)

Bulgarian 

неделя (sabbath). (various references)

Chinese 

�" (beginning, first day of lunar month), 一號 (first day of the month), 初一 (first day of lunar month, New Year's Day). (various references)

Czech

první den. (various references)

French

jour de rentrée (first day at school). (various references)

German

ETB (boxer's encephalopathy, Ethiopian birr, First Day Cover), Ersttagsbrief (First Day Cover). (various references)

Greek 

αρχιμηνιά (calends, first day of the month). (various references)

Hungarian

vasárnap (day of rest, on Sunday, sabbath, Sunday). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

立秋 (the first day of autumn), 立春 (first day of spring), 立冬 (beginning of winter, first day of winter), 立夏 (beginning of summer, first day of summer), 月旦 (commentary, first day of the month), 初� �所 (first day of a sumo tournament, New Year's sumo tournament). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

りっしゅう (the first day of autumn), りっしゅ�" (first day of spring), りっか (beginning of summer, first day of summer, snow), りっとう (beginning of winter, first day of winter, founding a political party), �'った�" (commentary, first day of the month), はつばしょ (first day of a sumo tournament, New Year's sumo tournament). (various references)

Pig Latin

irstfay ayday.(various references)

Romanian

duminicã (Sunday). (various references)

Russian 

воскресенье у квакеров. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nedelja (hebdomad, sunday, week). (various references)

Swedish

söndag (Sunday). (various references)

Welsh

calan (first day of month). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: satyrid.

-2 letters: adrift, afrits, drafts, drafty, drifts, drifty, ratify, triads, yairds.

-3 letters: adits, afrit, airts, artsy, astir, dairy, daisy, darts, diary, dirts, dirty, ditas, ditsy, draft, drats, drays, drift, fairs, fairy, fards, fiars, fiats, first, frats, frays, frits, rafts, raids, rifts, satyr, sayid, sitar, staid, stair, stray, stria, tardy, tarsi, trays, triad, tsadi.

+4 letters: farsightedly.