firstborn
literary or humorous uk
/ˈfɜːst.bɔːn/ us
/ˈfɝːst.bɔːrn/Meaning of firstborn in English
(Definition of firstborn from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of firstborn
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Of the 223 infants, 54% were male, 45% were firstborn, and 13% were born more than 2 weeks prematurely.
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Subjects were 101 healthy firstborn infants and their primary caregivers.
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In this sample, there is no evidence that the gender of the firstborn child affected the vocabulary competence of the secondborn child.
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For example, maternal reports suggest that firstborns have larger vocabularies and reach language milestones sooner than their younger siblings.
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Some firstborns correct these errors by the time they begin to produce pronouns and do not show errors in production.
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Twenty-four of the children were firstborns (8 boys and 16 girls).
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We therefore examined language differences in firstborn and secondborn girls and boys.
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Nineteen preterm infants (45%) and 17 full-term infants (41%) were firstborn.
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Six of the children were firstborns and 10 were later borns.
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About birth order and child vocabulary, this study shows an advantage for firstborns by maternal report, but not in observed production or by standardized testing.
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These three-groups of firstborn attributes were relatively independent; for instance, even the first-born with less ability at schoolwork were given more responsibility at school.
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Parent-child interaction would account for the similarity between only and firstborn children in intellectual outcome.
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Vocabulary competence in firstborns and secondborns was only weakly related.
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By contrast, we found no firstborn-secondborn differences in observations of child speech or in standardized testing of children.
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Bolded numbers along the diagonal are correlations between firstborns and secondborns.
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