number one

number one
noun
1. a reference to yourself or myself etc.; `take care of number one' means to put your own interests first (Freq. 1)
Usage Domain: ↑colloquialism
Hypernyms: ↑self
2. the first or highest in an ordering or series
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He wanted to be the first

Syn: ↑first
Hypernyms: ↑rank
Hyponyms: ↑former
3. the first element in a countable series
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the first of the month

Syn: ↑first, ↑number 1
Hypernyms: ↑ordinal number, ↑ordinal, ↑no.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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