first love
noun
1The person with whom one falls in love for the first time.
2Devotion to God experienced at a person's conversion.
3The first experience of falling in love or the devotion associated with this.
4One's favourite occupation, pastime, possession, etc.
Origin
Late Middle English; earliest use found in Thomas Malory (d. 1471), author.
- pride of Barbados
- pride of California
- pride of China
- pride of India
- pride of place
- priderite
- Pride's Purge
- pridey
- pridy
- prie-dieu
- prier
- priest
- priestal
- priest cap
- priestcraft
- priestcrafty
- priestdom
- priesteen
- priesterly
- priestess
- priestesshood
- priesthood
- priest-in-charge
- priest in the pulpit
- priestish