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单词 first family
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first family
first family n. (a) (chiefly in plural) any of the families considered to have the greatest social rank or prestige in a particular area; esp. (in the United States) the descendants of the early European settlers in a region; (b) the family of the head of a nation, state, etc.; spec. the family of the President of the United States; also in extended use.In sense (a) (in the United States) now frequently in First Families of Virginia (abbreviated FFV).
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1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. iii. 122 The Patriarks, the first families of most Nations and Countries.
1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 53 You know you have been sought to by some of the first Families in the Nation, for your Alliance.
1855 Harper's Mag 186/1 All the old settlers of Albany—the first families of that Dutch and aristocratic capital—will remember ‘Jimmy Caldwell’.
1894 ‘M. Twain’ Pudd'nhead Wilson xii. 156 This superiority was exalted to supremacy when a person of such nativity could also prove descent from the First Families of that great commonwealth.
1913 T. C. Miller & H. Maxwell West Virginia I. xiii. 197 His title to nobility rose in proportion to the intimacy of his alliance with the first families of Virginia.
1937 Bluefield (W. Va.) Daily Tel. 17 Jan. 1/4 The beautiful residence which saw formal state functions and gayety, the home life of the state's first family.
1958 Life 19 May 41/1 After a visit with the first family of the U.S.., prince and princess left to put a royal frosting on an exuberant state's cake-cutting.
1995 Mojo Jan. 91/1 The Wenners on the town are clearly rock 'n' roll's First Family.
2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 9 Apr. b39/2 Lexingtonians who can trace themselves back to one of the FFVs—first families of Virginia—are known to do little but contemplate the fact.
2010 Cape Cod Times (Nexis) 30 Aug. The Marine One helicopter with the first family onboard landed at Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod just after 10 a.m. yesterday.
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