Definition of First step

1. Noun. The first of a series of actions.

Exact synonyms: Initiative, Opening, Opening Move
Generic synonyms: Beginning, Commencement, Start
Specialized synonyms: Curtain Raiser, First Base, Peace Initiative
Derivative terms: Open, Open, Open, Opening

Lexicographical Neighbors of First Step

first rain
first rank symptoms
first rate
first reading
first receiver
first responder
first responders
first rudiment
first sacker
first sergeant
first sergeants
first session
first slip
first slips
first stage of labour
first step (current term)
first stomach
first strike
first string
first team
first temporal convolution
first thing
first things first
first touch
first trimester
first truth
first unit
first violin
first violinist

Literary usage of First step

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

1. The Republic of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1881)
"... the gravity with which the first step is taken in the actual creation of the State, namely, the sending; out of the city all who had arrived at ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"... with respect to the objection, that the claim was not preferred in the first instance ; that the return of the writ is the first step upon the record, ..."

3. The Montessori method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in by Maria Montessori, Henry Wyman Holmes (1912)
"... The " Children's House " marks still another triumph ; it is the first step toward the socialisation of the house. The inmates find under their own roof ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"The first step in the preparation of such a catalogue must consist in the sifting of the various published reports and papers containing the data desired. ..."

5. Mind (1902)
"THE first step. BY ELIZABETH CADY STANTON. The firbt step toward a true civilization is to teach woman self-respect; to demand justice, liberty, ..."

6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The first step toward the reunion of the " Old School " and " New School " was taken in 1862, by the establishment of fraternal correspondence between the ..."

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