first-born

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Gilham said Stanley's father, who was an MP, and his mother - who helped establish the first women's college at Cambridge University - had "great expectations for their first-born".

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026

Naturally, Sybil can’t stand the thought of her first-born child limiting his worldview, especially because Everett was the one to expand hers.

From Salon • Oct. 15, 2025

Rebekah, a corporate striver with a mercenary streak, is beholden to her first-born boy.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2025

A UCLA-led team of researchers has found a correlation between early signs of adrenal puberty in first-born daughters and their mothers' having experienced high levels of prenatal stress.

From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2024

And she brought forth her first-born son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in the manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith