head first

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word head first. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word head first, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say head first in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word head first you have here. The definition of the word head first will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofhead first, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

See also: headfirst and head-first

English

Alternative forms

head-first

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /hɛd.fɜːst/
(US) IPA^(key): /hɛd.fɝst/

Adverb

head first (comparative more head first, superlative most head first)

With the head first or foremost.
Synonym: headlong

Antonym: feet first
- 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) , London: Chatto & Windus, , →OCLC, page 48:
  I shot head first off of the bank like a frog, clothes and all on, and struck out for the canoe.
- 1889, Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “L’Amie Inconnue”, in Sylvie and Bruno, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 25:
  He must be able to spring from the floor to about twice his own height, gradually turning over as he rises, so as to come down again head first.

References

The Oxford English Dictionary, Second edition, 1989; online version November 2010. Link. Earlier version first published in New English Dictionary, 1896.

Wikious

Boobota

Sagapedia