"first flight" meaning in English

See first flight in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: first flights [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} first flight (plural first flights)
  1. The first competitor to finish in a footrace or horse race, in a foxhunt, etc. Translations (first competitor to finish): ensimmäinen maalissa (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-first_flight-en-noun-DDqVSX76 Disambiguation of 'first competitor to finish': 90 10
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see first, flight. Related terms: first flight cover
    Sense id: en-first_flight-en-noun-d7bNDmuE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 77 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 22 78 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 20 80 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 16 84 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 21 79

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "first flights",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "first flight (plural first flights)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The first competitor to finish in a footrace or horse race, in a foxhunt, etc."
      ],
      "id": "en-first_flight-en-noun-DDqVSX76",
      "links": [
        [
          "competitor",
          "competitor"
        ],
        [
          "finish",
          "finish"
        ],
        [
          "footrace",
          "footrace"
        ],
        [
          "horse race",
          "horse race"
        ],
        [
          "foxhunt",
          "foxhunt"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "lang_code": "fi",
          "sense": "first competitor to finish",
          "word": "ensimmäinen maalissa"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "23 77",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "22 78",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "20 80",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "16 84",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 79",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see first, flight."
      ],
      "id": "en-first_flight-en-noun-d7bNDmuE",
      "links": [
        [
          "first",
          "first#English"
        ],
        [
          "flight",
          "flight#English"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "29 71",
          "word": "first flight cover"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "first flight"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Finnish translations"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "first flights",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "first flight (plural first flights)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "first flight cover"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The first competitor to finish in a footrace or horse race, in a foxhunt, etc."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "competitor",
          "competitor"
        ],
        [
          "finish",
          "finish"
        ],
        [
          "footrace",
          "footrace"
        ],
        [
          "horse race",
          "horse race"
        ],
        [
          "foxhunt",
          "foxhunt"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see first, flight."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "first",
          "first#English"
        ],
        [
          "flight",
          "flight#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "first competitor to finish",
      "word": "ensimmäinen maalissa"
    }
  ],
  "word": "first flight"
}

Download raw JSONL data for first flight meaning in English (1.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-03-07 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-03-03 using wiktextract (d146717 and 59dc20b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.