Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to a person who has left one country and settled in another.
- adjective Of or relating to a person or persons whose parents are immigrants.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being the first form or version available to users.
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- adjective Of or relating to an
immigrant or hisfamily - adjective Of or relating to the
initial version of a class of products
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Examples
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White also said a government bursary for so-called "first-generation" learners - the first in their family ever to attend college or university - was claimed by about 2,200 students, which he said is only about 2.3 per cent of the estimated 91,000 first-generation students on student aid who should have been eligible for the money.
Thestar.com - Home Page Louise Brown 2011
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Does this mean that dominant groups in the United States see first-generation Hispanics as hypersexual, overly-superstitious rubes with heavy accents?
Stephen Palacios: Hispanic Images In The Media: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Bratt Stephen Palacios 2012
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The Pew study, "Muslim Americans: No Sign of Growth in Alienation or Extremism," reports that 63 percent of Muslim Americans are first-generation immigrants to the U.S., with 45 percent having arrived since 1990.
Nancy Fuchs Kreimer: The Good News About Islamophobia Nancy Fuchs Kreimer 2011
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Both Motorola's hardware and Google's new software are impressive and, after testing it for about a week, I believe the Xoom beats the first-generation iPad in certain respects, though it lags in others.
Motorola's Xoom Starts Tablet Wars With iPad Walter S. Mossberg 2011
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The Pew study, "Muslim Americans: No Sign of Growth in Alienation or Extremism," reports that 63 percent of Muslim Americans are first-generation immigrants to the U.S., with 45 percent having arrived since 1990.
Nancy Fuchs Kreimer: The Good News About Islamophobia Nancy Fuchs Kreimer 2011
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That compares with a $320 bill of materials for the first-generation 32-gigabyte iPad, based on April 2010 pricing.
IPad 2's Bill of Materials Close to First IPad Nathan Becker 2011
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"In terms of the rich people here in China, the thing that's unusual is that 30 years ago there really weren't people of great wealth so what you have is first-generation fortunes," Gates said.
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Parisa Kharazi is a first-generation American woman of Iranian descent who grew up in New Jersey.
Ross Szabo: What Does an American Look Like? Racial Diversity in the Peace Corps Ross Szabo 2011
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"In terms of the rich people here in China, the thing that's unusual is that 30 years ago there really weren't people of great wealth so what you have is first-generation fortunes," Gates said.
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Parisa Kharazi is a first-generation American woman of Iranian descent who grew up in New Jersey.
Ross Szabo: What Does an American Look Like? Racial Diversity in the Peace Corps Ross Szabo 2011
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