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Definition of Firsthand
1. Adverb. From the original source; directly. "I heard this story firsthand"
2. Adjective. Received directly from a source. "Firsthand information"
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
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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